Educator Innovator

APRIL 24, 2015

Still, the idea has struggled to gain a substantial foothold in our current systems of teaching and learning. The Web shouldn’t be taught traditionally, with textbooks and a blackboard. It’s not a new idea: American philosopher John Dewey was a major advocate of learning-through-doing in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

It may be the hardware or the operating system (OS), even a web browser or other underlying software, as long as the program code is executed in it. Arguably, one of the best candidates is the learning management system. The LMS has long positioned itself as an “operating system,” of sorts for higher education.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 5, 2014

Special thanks for this go to our sponsor, Blackboard Collaborate, for providing the service that allows us to do this! Saturday, August 9th at 12pm Classroom 2.0 LIVE Weekly Show with Kyle Pearce , Kyle Pearce is a Tech Integration Specialist, MS math teacher & coach/curriculum developer in 1:1 environments @MathletePearce. Classroom 2.0

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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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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

ASSIST has expanded the system with content for every grade level, K-12 through Higher Education. BLACKBOARD AND READSPEAKER ( www.blackboard.com ) & ( www.readspeaker.com ) Blackboard and ReadSpeaker are furthering their partnership to help instructors worldwide improve course content accessibility. Illuminate 10.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

This panel tackles this challenge from a variety of perspectives ranging from educators, administrators, policymakers, and nonprofit leaders providing insight on how to effectively evaluate the learning potential of digital content, and how the educational system can best structure technology acquisition and implementation. Learn more here.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies has announced it is allowing any SQL-based business intelligence tool, such as Tableau and Jaspersoft, to access data from its modern, student information system and learning management system. Among the new updates includes Blackboard Gradebook integration.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Many of these, the blackboard, the projector and the screen, and eventually other new technologies such as television and video, were placed at the front of the room because this was where all the action was. In these 'class' rooms, our students gathered, seated in rows, facing toward a single part of the space - the front.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

John Logie Baird demonstrated a working television system in 1926. We use the word in such a way that suggests computer memory and human memory are the same sort of process, system, infrastructure, architecture. Alexander Graham Bell made his famous telephone call to his assistant in 1876. They are not.

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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. Candidate VoiceThread for Digital Education - Kelli Stair- teacher/ writer An Example STEAM and Maker-Education Curriculum: From Puppets to Robots - Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D. Torrey Trust, Ph.D.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2017

AltSchool (private school; learning management system) – $40 million. MakeBlock (robotics) – $30 million. AltSchool (private school; learning management system) – $173 million. D2L (learning management system) – $165 million. MasterClass (online classes taught by celebrities) – $35 million.

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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. Our education system is completely racist.

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

” (Note: there’s a response to this article by Georgia Tech professor Ashok Goel, who builds teaching chat-bots, in the “robots” section below. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Chris Gilliard on “ How Ed Tech Is Exploiting Students.” Edsurge also interviewed Goel this week.

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Saving Socrates

DECEMBER 3, 2014

While both the Soviets and the Japanese fell out of fashion as our rivals, it was not because of our educational system. We were a mixed matched heterogeneous group of kids from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and value systems. A blackboard can be effective or ineffective. Schooling isn''t optional in the US.

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Hack Education

APRIL 21, 2017

Testing, Testing… Via Education Week : “ Rhode Island drops unpopular standardized test system.” ” 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.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

” Via The New York Times : “Judge, Citing Inequality, Orders Connecticut to Overhaul Its School System.” ” The claims are based on Blackboard data, published on the LMS company’s blog. .” ” “Do Mylan’s EpiPen Contracts With Schools Break Antitrust Laws ?

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The nonprofit National University System announced today that it plans to acquire the for-profit Northcentral University , which specializes in online education in graduate and doctoral-level programs.” “ Is Blackboard dying? Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Should They?

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

” “A government watchdog group called Florida ’s growing system of privately-run public charter schools wasteful and said it sometimes gives rise to self-dealing and profiteering ,” says The Florida Times-Union. Blackboard is rebranding Moodlerooms as Blackboard Open LMS. Because “open.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A Pennsylvania judge has banned fraternity Pi Delta Psi from the state for a decade, a punishment for a hazing death in 2013, and an unprecedented step likely to rock the national Greek system.” Blackboard’s Chief Financial Officer, Lisa Mayr, is also leaving the company. .

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2018

” Gentrification is forcing poor people out of the city; segregated school systems follow them to new locations. There are links to “research” about the accreditation system in the “research” section below. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” The firm: KPMG. ” Some “fix.”

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “An Education Department plan to begin cutting large debt collection firms out of the student loan system is on hold after Congress warned against move.” Via Wired : “How Silicon Valley Fuels an Informal Caste System.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

For nearly 30 years, Medicaid has helped school systems cover costs for special education services and equipment, from physical therapists to feeding tubes. ” The Department of Education has rehired student loan debt collectors fired by the Obama Administration: Enterprise Recovery Systems and Navient-owned Pioneer Credit Recovery.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2018

” Honestly, people, there is a thing called 'BitSchool' now, doing 'personalized learning solution' through a blockchain 'paid for use system' - how much b t can we take??!! ” Via the press release : “ Blackboard Bringing Contactless Student IDs to Apple Wallet for Campuses Nationwide.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

of Texas System Picks Former CUNY Leader as Its Next Chancellor.” “ Blackboard ’s Defense of its Finances is not Persuasive,” writes Michael Feldstein. Also from Feldstein : “ Moodle and Blackboard Cut Ties.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

A public service announcement from the FBI : “ Education Technologies : Data Collection and Unsecured Systems Could Pose Risks to Students.” Faculty leaders see attempt to turn system into a ‘widget factory.’” ” (Also from Hill : “Timeline of e-Literate Coverage of Blackboard Learn Ultra.”).

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

Via The Atlantic : “Two radically different bills aim to overhaul [ Detroit ’s] beleaguered school system. Why Don’t All School Systems Do This?” ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Nevada System Chancellor Resigns Over Email Flap.” Will the legislation do more harm than good?”

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

“ Robots won’t replace teachers because they can’t inspire us.” One company not using Amazon to run its computing infrastructure: Blackboard. But oh look, Pearson – which wants you to buy its proprietary badge system, Acclaim. “ Tekserve , Precursor to the Apple Store, to Close After 29 Years.”

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Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

“ Can Richard Carranza Integrate the Most Segregated School System in the Country? “ Blackboard ’s Debt Grows While Canvas Gains Contracts,” says ELearning Inside News. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. This Week in Betteridge’s Law of Headlines. ” asks Gizmodo.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Basecamp is essentially a learning management system (with the adjective “personalized” appended to it). Data-driven learning: A majority of platforms described as ‘adaptive’ fall into this category of efficient management systems that provide materials appropriate to a students’ proficiency level.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” Inc lists “5 Entrepreneurs That Are Shaking Up Education” and includes the CEO of Blackboard. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. From the Raspberry Pi blog : “IoT Sleepbuddy, the robotic babysitter.” Never change. “A Tech Bubble Killed Computer Science Once, Can It Do So Again?”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. And everyone clicks and rages and snipes all over again. As the decade went on, the arguments for surveilling students’ social media have changed several times. Chatbot Instructors.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “The University of California system has agreed to pay $1.15 ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” The study was conducted by Blackboard and researchers by the University of Michigan. ” These VR people seem nice and ethical. .”

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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. .

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Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

Paul School System.” “ University of California president Janet Napolitano announced Wednesday that she wants the system to explore ways to guarantee admission to academically eligible students in the state’s community colleges ,” says Inside Higher Ed. A teacher in front of a blackboard.

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Key Data Systems has acquired Progress Testing. ” Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “Comparing the First Ten Years of Blackboard and Instructure in LMS Market.” .” “Make it rain” here is a reference to an analytics app. million from ADV.

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Hack Education

JUNE 3, 2016

The court has said that schools will have to close if the Legislature does not correct inequity in the system by the end of June.” ” UNC system president Margaret Spellings says that UNC will not try to enforce the state’s controversial “ bathroom law.” ” Nice priorities you have here, Kansas. .”

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Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

“Students who can’t afford uniforms in New Orleans all-charter-system are routinely barred from attending school. 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.

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