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Schools Must Support Educators While Keeping Tabs on Tech Trends

EdTech Magazine

According to a 2017 study by Blackboard and Project Tomorrow , a majority of school principals (51 percent) and technology leaders (67 percent) say that the greatest challenge they face in implementing digital learning or expanding technology use is motivating teachers to change their traditional instructional practices. Two to Three Years.

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Profile of Asbury Park (NJ) Superintendent Sancha Gray

techlearning

A second prong of individualized direct instruction, informed by the data provided from those “games,” was rounded out by a third rotation—reading books of their choosing at their level. They use the Blackboard platform to communicate with professors and engage fellow students in their courses.

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"The Internet Will Be Everywhere and Nowhere"—Dr. Michio Kaku's ISTE 2016 Keynote

Edsurge

According to Dr. Kaku, talking wallpaper, data-reading toilets and other technologies that seem like miracles today are a mere fifty years away. Remember, robots are [just] adding machines. The central stage featured a projector screen the size of several blackboards, a live band and a variety of furniture for interviews.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

Those activities often leave data trails, making it possible to quickly measure how well, say, a section of an online textbook is conveying the knowledge a teacher hopes to impart, or whether the material needs to be revisited and revised. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says.

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The Facebook Scandal: What Can We Learn as Educators

The CoolCatTeacher

In a nutshell, Cambridge Analytica, was a corporation that used Facebook data and had permission to look at about a quarter million accounts, but because of the way Facebook sets itself up, whenever you give permission to Facebook, you’re also basically giving permission for Facebook to look at your friends. Vicki: Yeah. Vicki: Yeah.

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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2018)

Hack Education

Robots won’t replace you , the press repeatedly said. Unsaid: robots will just de-professionalize , outsource , or privatize the work. Or, as the AI makers like to say, robots will make us all work harder (and no doubt, with no unions, cheaper). A teacher in front of a blackboard. Don’t worry, teachers.

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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

Edsurge

Neck and neck for the top spot in the LMS academic vendor race are Blackboard—the early entry and once-dominant player—and coming-up quickly from behind, the relatively new contender, Canvas, each serving about 6.5 million students. The LMS market today is valued at $9.2 The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.)