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Classroom prizes and grants available!

Educational Technology Guy

Project Tomorrow is celebrating Speak Up America Week 2014 this week with opportunities for schools and classrooms to win prizes and grants by participating in this year''s Speak Up surveys. 8-12 National Online Surveys Close 12/19: [link] org/speakup/ Irvine, Calif. The online Speak Up 2014 survey s close on December 19 th.

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Bankers, Buyers and Warriors: Reporter’s Notebook From the 2017 ASU+GSV Summit

Edsurge

Almost all of the PreK to 12 programming clustered in the Little America hotel, while the post-secondary, workforce training and company suites clustered in the more opulent Grand America across the street. Take Blackboard , which has bought 15 companies since 2014. The results held steady from last year’s survey: Source: GSV.

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The Free and Online 2014 School Leadership Summit Starts Wednesday! (Full Session List)

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The conference is held in the online platform Blackboard Collaborate, and instructions for joining any sessions and to find the schedule in your own time zone are at [link]. And special thanks to Blackboard Collaborate for the terrific conference platform. Susan Blakely Secondary Math Teacher Globalizing the High School U.S.

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Global Collaboration Week Begins - Find a Project and Connect!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

This event is brought to you by GlobalEd Events and TakingITGlobal. URL/LINK TO JOIN: [link] ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: HOST SCHOOL: Ste Genevieve High School and Middle School - Central Standard Time ORGANIZED BY: Rhett Oldham, An educator or educators at a non-profit school - more contact information in calendar event Alert!

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Why History Matters

Hack Education

And I’m sorry, but another aside: if you get your history of education from a guy who calls Thomas Jefferson’s slaves “employees” then you might have some real problems discerning the kinds of sources – primary or secondary – that you should take seriously.). Why blackboards? When blackboards?

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

Hack Education

As a set of policies, accountability was instantiated in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, reauthorized as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2002, and reinforced by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015. You know what’s cooler than a million hacked Yahoo accounts ?)

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

For what it’s worth, according to the latest data from the NCES , the number of post-secondary institutions in the US has increased since 2011. Inside Higher Ed examines the challenges facing LMS provider Blackboard. Via The Cambridge Student : “National student boycott invalidates National Student Survey data.”