Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

If you have an LMS you love, Google Classroom often won’t work well with it because it isn’t well-aligned with industry standards. parent-teacher contact book –send private notes to all or some parents. It’s only free if you have a G Suite for Education account. It doesn’t allow a lot of customization.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2017

While the emergence of “edtech” and the growing tide of investment towards this industry has led to a seemingly endless proliferation of new startups claiming to be in service of education, the perception of many educators, including some of my professors at Penn, is often one of skepticism. Blackboard Inc.,

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 30, 2011

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). We''ll use Clark''s recently-published book, Unschooling Rules, as the basis for the conversation.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 15, 2011

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Steve interviews Mark Fenske about his book, The Winner''s Brain. link] POWER OF PROJECTS ( Classroom 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 16, 2012

From the Amazon book description: "Higher education in the U.S. This book explores how evolving family structures, new ways of balancing work and personal lives, and rapid technological advancements will transform the ways that U.S. Recordings : The full Blackboard Collaborate recording is at https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2012-04-17.1710.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2016

The central stage featured a projector screen the size of several blackboards, a live band and a variety of furniture for interviews. Beyond publishing the research typical of a physicst, Dr. Kaku is also the author of several books on how technology will affect the world that we live in.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2011

Join me Tuesday, August 9th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Douglas Rushkoff returning to talk to us about his new book, Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age. The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. Log in at [link].

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 8, 2012

Date : Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8 pm Eastern ( interna tional times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. Log in at [link].

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 4, 2013

Join me Monday, March 4th, for an early live and interactive FutureofEducation.com conversation with return guest Richie Norton on his new book, The Power of Starting Something Stupid. The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. Log in at [link].

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

ASU+GSV Summit , now in its eighth year, has assembled yet another potent cocktail of education industry stakeholders from different walks of life. Take Blackboard , which has bought 15 companies since 2014. edtech industry. Bankers, lawyers, researchers and policymakers. The joke’s on them.”.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 8, 2011

Wilson on his new book, Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change. We''ll talk with Professor Wilson about his book, his experiences in education, and what the implications of his work might be as we think about the current education reform movements. Log in at [link]. psid=2011-10-11.1654.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2020

To adopt test proctoring software is to enrich an unethical industry. The co-founders of Blackboard, incidentally, are back with a new startup: an administrative layer on top of Zoom to make it work "better" for school, they say, with features like attendance-taking, test-proctoring, and eye-tracking.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

To mark the 20th anniversary of Blackboard, one of the first LMSes, the company’s co-founder, Matthew Pittinsky, wrote an epic blog post about the company’s history, which includes his advice for today’s edtech leaders. At Blackboard we packaged learning management into three tiers. In fact, the notion emerged about two decades ago.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

If they are right, it would mean short-circuiting the famous “10,000-hour rule” based on studies by education researcher Anders Ericsson and popularized by bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell in his book “Outliers.” Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2011

Date : Thursday, August 25th, 2011 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT ( interna tional times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. Log in at [link].

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2014

The Hechinger Report has been publishing excerpts from Richard Whitmire’s book On the Rocketship: How Top Charter Schools are Pushing the Envelope. Taking over as CEO of DreamBox was Jessie Woolley-Wilson, a former executive with Blackboard. CHAPTER 25: Danner (and Reed Hastings) Discover DreamBox. This company would have died.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Bryant is an active member of Educause, and the Online Learning Consortium (OLC); she also served as an Exemplary Course Program reviewer for Blackboard, Inc. and BS in Industrial Engineering/Human Computer Interaction from University of Alabama and North Carolina A+T State University, respectively. She has a Ph.D.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

In his 2017 book Platform Capitalism , Nick Srnicek posits that platforms are poised to become the fundamental business model of our digital world – key to the new economy, clearly, but also key to political and social systems (and what these will become under the control of these powerful technology companies). Subscribe to their blog.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

You don’t need to be an expert in the Blackboard Collaborate platform to help (we give you training and then live help at the time), but it makes a HUGE different to presenters to have a moderator helper in their session rooms, and we try to make sure there is one for every session! Sears, M.A.,

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 17, 2011

link] AUTHOR DAVID SHENK ON HIS IMPORTANT BOOK, THE GENIUS IN ALL OF US ( Future of Education Series ) Tue 19 Apr 08:00PM New York / Wed 20 Apr 12:00AM GMT / Wed 20 Apr 12:00PM Sydney Steve Hargadon. link] AUTHOR BARRY SCHWARTZ ON HIS BOOK, THE PARADOX OF CHOICE. Steve Hargadon will talk with Barry Schwartz on The Paradox of Choice.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

When he opens a book, he sees “just a whole bunch of words, a whole bunch of letters lined up.” Think of children sitting in front of a blackboard, sounding out words as a teacher points to the letters that represent each sound. Expose them to lots of good books and they will learn to read.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

And even if partially true, we are not required to respond the way those in power or in the technology industry would like. And as they do so, we hand over a certain level of control – to the technologies themselves, sure, but just as importantly to the industries and the ideologies behind them.

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Evelyn Learning

JUNE 7, 2023

Operational Cost Gone are the days when the things required to impart education were just different subject books, a professor, a blackboard, chalk, desks, and students. Schools should focus on e-books more which will help to cut down the cost of books from the cost of tuition. Now, the time has changed. Dr. Danny Barnes.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2021

And they channel at least an estimated $15 billion to companies in the enrollment management sector for marketing, recruiting and enrolling students, a senior industry insider says. Books for sale in the college bookstore at the University of Miami. Credit: Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/UIG via Getty Images.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

The series provides grade-appropriate literary, science and social studies content and each book contains a text at a higher level with extra support to expedite students’ achievement. VITALSOURCE & BLACKBOARD ( get.vitalsource.com ) & ( www.blackboard.com ) Blackboard Inc.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

One of the best books I read this year was Bad Blood by WSJ journalist John Carreyou. Neither Pearson nor Blackboard, companies that were quite active in gobbling up startups a year or so ago, bought a single company this year. “Smart cities” will be facilitated by ed-tech, thru the ed-tech industry. But it matters.

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MindShift

JUNE 9, 2018

Her new book, The Design of Childhood, considers the physical spaces where our children learn and grow: from the living room rug crowded with toys, to the streets, welcoming or dangerous, to classrooms, bright and new or dilapidated. Today, she’s an architecture and design critic. “If you measure a classroom in St.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 12, 2013

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Dr. Harel Caperton conducted breakthrough research at the MIT Media Lab that led to publishing the book Constructionism with Seymour Papert. Her book Children Designers received the 1991 Outstanding Book Award by the American Education Research Association (AERA). Log in at [link].

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

BLACKBOARD ALLY ( www.blackboard.com ) Blackboard announced that Blackboard Ally is now available for multiple learning management systems used by K-12 school districts. Blackboard Ally is an accessibility solution that helps make digital class content in a learning management system (LMS) more accessible for all learners.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2016

And examples of district-wide technology platforms include Learning Management Systems (LMS) like Blackboard and Scholastic. After spending more than 35 years helping to build the enterprise software industry and, among other things, writing Oracle Corp.’s Curriculum Solutions, Tech Platforms: Taking it from the top.

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MindShift

APRIL 21, 2015

He has been complaining about a glitch when students submit assignments to the program that are supposed to be auto-graded and added to the grade book, but instead disappear. If students and teachers are having challenges, we are going to be forefront in the industry to address those challenges,” Swift said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Personalized learning argues that the entrepreneurial nature of the knowledge economy and the gaping need, diversity and unmanageable size of a typical public school classroom are ill-served by the usual arrangement of a teacher lecturing at a blackboard.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Via Buzzfeed : “The Industry That Was Crushed By The Obama Administration.” ” Among the not-awesomeness of ed-tech built by teachers, please let’s not forget: Blackboard, TurnItIn. The KidPass app locates activities and book classes for kids in New York City. ” (And yet, the bootcamp thing.

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Hack Education

APRIL 21, 2017

There is a lack of schools, teachers, books, uniforms and food. Yet, according to this study, nearly half of the donors have chosen to supply educational technology, far more than are building schools, providing basic books and materials or employing teachers. “Can a District Disrupt the Edtech Industry ?”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

” Via Edsurge : “Golden State GDPR: What the Edtech Industry Should Know About CA ’s New Privacy Rules.” ” Related: John Warner has penned a great review of Haidt’s new book. Blackboard is rebranding Moodlerooms as Blackboard Open LMS. Betsy DeVos Says Yes. billion over five years.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

The students learn how to use industry-approved software programs and are often granted paid internships at local design firms and research labs, and Greeley’s planning and development departments. The program tailors online books to individual student levels. They also take field trips to area manufacturing firms.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

There’s more for-profit higher ed news – and how the Trump Administration has deep, deep ties to this industry – in the for-profit higher ed section below. Or just have them read a book. “ Blackboard ’s Defense of its Finances is not Persuasive,” writes Michael Feldstein. ” JFC.

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