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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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

Martin Cooper, a Motorola exec, made the first mobile telephone call in 1973, not 1983. The technologies I pointed to earlier – the telephone, radio, television, the Internet, mobile phones – these have all shifted collective memory and culture, as of course the printing press did before that. And the Internet?

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Technology Learning Data Libraries 40

Bryan Alexander

MAY 4, 2015

I’ve been studying the mobile technology world for a while, ever since helping do some research for Howard Rheingold’s Smartmobs (2002). The mobile phone was the first major step in that direction, followed by PDAs, mp3 players, ereaders, then tablets. A swarm of mobile devices **in 2009**.

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Tablets Laptops Mobility Education 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Join via Blackboard Collaborate here. Education Revolution Google+ Community Robots grading essays. This session guides participants through three phases of 1-to-1 planning: Envision, Communicate, and Implement. Learn more here. Her post, Do You Hear Me Now? Thanks for sharing, Karen!

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Libraries Google Common Core Conference 51

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

MP3 and MP4 versions will be available as well as the full Blackboard Collaborate recordings, although they take some days to process. Carmona, Lead Contract English Instructor Student-Generated Apps for Mobile Devices – can they enhance higher levels of understanding? Spreading the word : this a free event, so be sure to tell others!

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Hack Education

APRIL 21, 2017

Via the Udacity blog : “ Udacity Launches Mobile Developer Education with Facebook at F8.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via Techcrunch : “ Robot tutor Musio makes its retail debut in Japan.” Blackboard says it is “Putting data in the hands of students.” ” (Not really.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Udacity ’s mobile apps now support “ offline learning.” “ Telcel customers can now access Khan Academy free of data charges on mobile apps and es.zero.khanacademy.org thanks to partnership with Carlos Slim Foundation and Telcel,” says Khan Academy. Knewton has partnered with WebAssign.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

E-Literate claimed this week that “ Canvas Surpasses Blackboard Learn in US Market Share” – with some additional analysis about “What’s Important about the Blackboard Market Share News.” Canvas has two more installations than Blackboard in the E-Literate calculations? But wait wait wait.

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Education Khan Academy Blackboard Report 43

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

But many students live in threadbare mobile homes and modest, low-slung dwellings on the edge of town. Extra money has allowed these wealthier districts to invest heavily in Chromebooks and iPads, state-of-the-art robotics programs, computerized blackboards, and high-end 3-D printers. It’s perhaps not surprising.

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Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

“ Blackboard ’s Debt Grows While Canvas Gains Contracts,” says ELearning Inside News. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” IHE blogger Joshua Kim predicts there is “1 technology, 2 futures” as he writes about “ Robot Burger Makers and Adaptive Learning Platforms.”

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Education MOOC E-rate Coursera 43

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

“Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot ,” says The Wall Street Journal in a story about “Jill Watson” (of course it’s a female name), an automated teaching assistant at Georgia Tech. “ Blackboard Partners with Fishtree for Personalized Learning,” says Campus Technology.

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Inside Higher Ed examines the challenges facing LMS provider Blackboard. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via CNBC : “Google exec, Mark Cuban agree that these college majors are the most robot-resistant.” ” Learn-to-code toy Ozobots is launching Spiderman and Guardians of the Galaxy branded robots. .”

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Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

“The Moodle / Blackboard Breakup: The Long and the Short of It” by e-Literate’s Michael Feldstein. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Edsurge : “ Robots Won’t Replace Instructors , 2 Penn State Educators Argue. Harvard Says His Lab Fabricated Research.”

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Education Company Report IXL Learning 53

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot,” The Wall Street Journal gushed in 2016 , documenting an experiment undertaken at Georgia Tech in which a chatbot called “Jill Watson” answered questions in a course’s online forum. People were relieved that there was a new alternative to Blackboard.

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Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

” That is, the latest from Blackboard announcing a string of changes to executive roles. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” “Global Demand for Mobile Computing Devices in K–12 Grows, Powered by U.S. Labor and Management. Adjunct faculty at Nazareth College have voted to unionize.

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Khan Academy Education Facebook E-rate 45

Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Education Week : “Thousands of Android Mobile Apps Improperly Track Children, Study Says.” ” Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “Comparing the First Ten Years of Blackboard and Instructure in LMS Market.” ” (Psst.

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Hack Education

JUNE 3, 2016

Via The New York Times : “Dreams Stall as CUNY , New York City’s Engine of Mobility, Sputters.” ” Also via The New York Times : “A Mission to Bring STEM Skills, and Robots, to Children in West Africa.” Via Techcrunch : “Nearly 1 in 4 people abandon mobile apps after only one use.”

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Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

Via NPR : “Students Compete In First-Ever International High School Robotics Competition.” ” The New York Times reports that “ Burundi Robotics Team Vanishes After U.S. Via KQED’s Mindshift : “ MIT’s Scratch Program Is Evolving For Greater, More Mobile Creativity.” Competition.”

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