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A Bored Student Hacked His School’s Systems. Will the Edtech Industry Pay Attention?

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Specifically, he tried to get into some of the learning and student management systems built by Blackboard and Follett, which are two of the most widely used edtech systems in the country. I think schools could use this to add useful links, like the student handbook or the school calendar. At least he tried to.

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Today - Maurice Gibbons on Self-Directed Learning

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The publisher''s description of the book: The Self-Directed Learning Handbook offers teachers and principals an innovative program for customizing schooling to the learning needs of individual students-- and for motivating them to take increasing responsibility for deciding what and how they should learn. Log in at [link].

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The Consensus Around “Open”

Iterating Toward Openness

The Open Data Handbook defines open data as: Open data is data that can be freely used, re-used and redistributed by anyone – subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and sharealike. Even Blackboard was originally a Linux/apache/mysql/perl, or LAMP, app!). Spoiler alert: You can’t. So Where’s the Debate?

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