eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Makerspaces are expected to reach accelerated classroom adoption in less than one year, according to the K-12 Edition of the 2016 New Media Consortium Horizon Report. Essential Physics is a full-color, comprehensive physics textbook, paired with an e-book offering over 100 interactive tools to increase student engagement and understanding.

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CMS SchoolDude E-rate Differentiated Instruction 79

Veative

JANUARY 3, 2019

As Michael Heim posits in his 1993 book, The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality , VR has signaled an ontological shift in how human beings interact with and utilize technology. In their book The Future of Innovation and Technology in Education , Visvizi et al. Data and intelligent analytics. Rethinking education. A new tomorrow.

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Education Learning Analytics Data Assessment 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Zoom, for example, was not designed for classroom use (although Stanford University was, interestingly, its first paying customer); it was designed to facilitate remote business meetings. In ed-tech circles, we call this "learning analytics," but it's less about learning than it is about productivity.).

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Software LMS Microsoft Company 132

Mistakengoal.com

JULY 21, 2014

Below, I share some quotes from early-late 20th century sources that would be at home in an article, book, or blog post written in 2014. Faculty wonder if their jobs are being increasingly outsourced to MOOCs and learning analytics funded by the Gates Foundation. The classroom remains the core of our enterprise.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2016

All teaching resources purchased in the ClassFlow Marketplace can be delivered to students in the classroom, at home, or on-the-go using ClassFlow’s free delivery features. Additionally, Brightspace includes real-time learning analytics to provide teachers with engagement data that can help them improve student outcomes.

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Trends Digital Badges Blended Learning Learning Analytics 40

Hack Education

JUNE 14, 2016

Testing and assessment remain the primary reason why schools buy computers; these are also the primary purposes for which teachers say they use new technologies in their classrooms. Ed-tech amnesia: we act as though nobody thought about using computers in the classroom until Steve Jobs introduced the iPad, or something.

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Company Industry Assessment Examples 67

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

In his 2017 book Platform Capitalism , Nick Srnicek posits that platforms are poised to become the fundamental business model of our digital world – key to the new economy, clearly, but also key to political and social systems (and what these will become under the control of these powerful technology companies).

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” NPR asks whose bones made up those old classroom skeletons. ” “How Real-World Learning Could Help People Compete With Machines ” – The Chronicle of Higher Education on Joseph E. Aoun’s new book Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

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Education Robotics OER MOOC 46

Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 27, 2022

From self-learning to flipped classroom approach, we have seen technology make a considerable impact on the learning and teaching methodologies. With numerous benefits to offer, digital learning has become an important part of the education system. Learning Outside the Classroom Environment.

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Trends Technology eBook Gamification 111

Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 23, 2020

If work that is highly impactful in a single setting cannot be scaled to multiple classrooms, it does little to advance the cause of improving success for each and every student. However, if there’s no practical way to adapt this model to other classrooms, we can’t use this model to help improve success for all students.

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OER Education Course Learning Analytics 163

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Wherever he’s taught, and whatever his role, Carl has always had one common belief—kids need to drive their own learning. Carl is the author of the six-part book series Mobile Learning Mindset , each part of which focuses on a different stakeholder and the role they play in a successful mobile learning initiative.

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Mobile Learning EdTech Company Data 84

Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2017

These days, though, even the most well-known colleges feel pressure to keep up with the changing times and technologies when it comes to their classroom practices. It’s not enough to install a few “smart classrooms”—today’s new approaches go deeper, often requiring professors to change the way they teach.

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MOOC Data Training Learning Analytics 60

Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2018

Amazing what reading a book will do for you. Via Wired : “How Apple Lost Its Place in the Classroom.” ” Via The New York Times : “Apple Unveils New iPad to Catch Google in the Classroom.” Via George Veletsianos: “ Bots, AI, & Education ” – updates 2 and 3 on his book project.

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Education Robotics iPad Company 45

Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

“Personalized learning” can mean that students “move at their own pace” through lessons and assignments, for example, unlike those classrooms where everyone is expected to move through material together. (In In an invented history of education, this has been the instructional arrangement for all of history.)

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Personalized Learning Learning Course Handbook 83

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

As we wrapped up 2020, we thought for sure that 2021 might bring us a reprieve from pandemic learning. Virtual and hybrid learning continued into the spring, but then classrooms welcomed back students for full-time in-person learning in the fall. Well, it did–but it also didn’t.

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EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 120

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Education technologies facilitate communication, expanding learning networks beyond the classroom. ” Several years ago – actually, it’s been five or six or seven now – when I was first working as a freelance tech journalist, I interviewed an author about a book he’d written on big data and privacy.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

Tagged on: March 10, 2017 Frederick County Public Schools using social media in the classroom | Your4State.com → Frederick County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Theresa Alban says that she's considering incorporating social media into the classroom. Tagged on: March 10, 2017 State reaches $3.5

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EdTech E-rate OER Coursera 170

Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

Edsurge and Getting Smart promote venture capitalist Ryan Craig ’s new book A New U and the idea that “ faster + cheaper alternatives will replace most of higher ed.” ” “Do Voice Assistant Devices Have a Place in the Classroom?” ” “How do children of color learn to draw themselves?

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Education Khan Academy Blackboard Report 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. They’re distracted.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. Average final exam scores among students assigned to classrooms that allowed computers were 18 percent of a standard deviation lower than exam scores of students in classrooms that prohibited computers.”

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

MAY 4, 2018

” Via The Verge : “ Amazon is launching a $23 subscription book box for kids.” Via Campus Technology : “When Learning Analytics Violate Student Privacy.” I did see this headline though: “Facebook’s Free Basics program ended quietly in Myanmar last year.”

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MOOC Education Robotics Company 42

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

Via Techcrunch : “ Nickelodeon gets into e-books with new reading app for kids, Nick Jr. Google boasts that “New Google Classroom features make it easier to learn, teach, manage and build” – that is, by adding notifications and metrics. More on the Classroom API via the G Suite Developers Blog.

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