The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Districts have spent thousands of dollars on consultants and software upgrades, and the racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps that the law was supposed to help eliminate remain largely unchanged. Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education. Nellie Mae is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.)

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Learning Report System Case Study 111

The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

She teaches courses in educational technology for the undergraduate elementary, undergraduate secondary, and Masters and Certification programs. And I think sometimes in my research world that I'm in now, we tend to stay in the clouds where we make everything very lengthy and wordy and difficult to assess. Thank you for listening.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The bill will be a massive revisions to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Lesson plans can be shared via LearnBoost, but also via Twitter or Facebook and can be embedded on websites and/or blogs. Research and Data Rey Junco continues to publish interesting research on how Facebook is impacting students'' academic performance.

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Knewton Pearson E-rate Education 43

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

I made what was probably the clearest statement of my vision for the future of learning materials in my Shuttleworth Fellowship application several years ago: My long-term goal is to create a world where OER are used pervasively throughout primary, secondary, and post-secondary schools. But is 300 a lot or a little? Second point.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

More than nine out of 10 districts polled said they were directing devices, software and professional development resources toward personalized learning. The commitment by the Facebook founder’s philanthropy is expected to run into the hundreds of millions of dollars per year. And what proportion of the hype will be realized?

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Personalized Learning Khan Academy Learning Software 34

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Any time schools get a new software program, they tend to pick off the low hanging fruit—i.e. The district chose itslearning because it enables the meta-tagging of learning objectives within the district’s libraries and the creation of assessment data that tells teachers whether a student has gained proficiency (or not).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Please spread the word and tell people about the Summit forward this email , or post on social media Hashtag: #homelearningsummit Twitter: @homelearnsummit Facebook: @homelearningsummit Instagram: homelearningsummit HERE ARE SOME OF THE TOPICS WE ARE WORKING TO COVER IN THE SUMMIT TALKS, INTERVIEWS, AND OPEN-CHAT TIMES : ADHD and Learning ?

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

Grading and assessing work done during Genius Hour. And they used the software Scratch, which is developed by MIT and really for students that are kind of 14 and under, and he developed his own video game using Scratch and looking at some tutorials online. What to expect from secondary students’ projects (and pitfalls to avoid).

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How To Elementary Course Video 73

The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Grading and assessing work done during Genius Hour. And they used the software Scratch, which is developed by MIT and really for students that are kind of 14 and under, and he developed his own video game using Scratch and looking at some tutorials online. What to expect from secondary students’ projects (and pitfalls to avoid).

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How To Elementary Course Video 40

Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Tagged on: March 24, 2017 Facebook Goes Full “Black Mirror”: How Facebook Is Making Membership a Prerequisite to Everyday Existence | The Bold Italic → Zuckerberg’s plan to build a global hegemony through “social credit.” This is the story of Bowling Green State University.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Tagged on: March 24, 2017 Facebook Goes Full “Black Mirror”: How Facebook Is Making Membership a Prerequisite to Everyday Existence | The Bold Italic → Zuckerberg’s plan to build a global hegemony through “social credit.” This is the story of Bowling Green State University.

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EdTech Symantec Facebook Data 150

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

” (So instead of “testing” we’ll have ubiquitous, non-stop surveillance / assessment via “personalized learning.” Via The New York Times : “‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ ” Lovely use of fake news by the Facebook leadership team to combat Facebook critics.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

” The technology revolution has delivered Google searches, Facebook friends, iPhone apps, Twitter rants and shopping for almost anything on Amazon, all in the past decade and a half. and Facebook Inc. and Facebook Inc. Photo-sharing service Instagram had 13 employees when it was acquired for $1 billion by Facebook in 2012.

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Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

There was a regularly updated Facebook page, a Twitter account, as well as a LinkedIn profile for its supposed president. What are promises that – legally – post-secondary institutions can or must make? If you want a job as a software developer in the technology industry, you’ll need a college degree.

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Technology Education Secondary Pearson 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Last year, Mark Zuckerberg made headlines when he announced he would donate 99% of his Facebook shares to his philanthropic LLC, the Chan Zuckerberg initiative. The pressure to move towards digital assessments has fueled schools’ investments in hardware and software more than any other argument about the importance of ed-tech.

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

” IPEDS is the government’s database tracking post-secondary education statistics, including enrollments and graduations. ” Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Reward Students for Referrals and Facebook Endorsements.” .” Roy Moore has just been elected Alabama ’s new Senator.

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