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The future includes good (human) teachers

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The best civics lesson requires you to leave the classroom. We know from the rise in free massive open online courses, better known as MOOCs, that a scholar on a screen can and already has replaced the sage on the stage. Related: Go vote.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via The AP : “Police in Vermont say a 15-year-old student was cited after approaching a classroom wearing a clown mask and banging on the windows as clown sightings are viewed as potential public safety threats throughout the country.” From the FCC : “Fact Sheet on Broadband Consumer Privacy Proposal.”

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Via Wired : “ Koch Brothers Are Cities’ New Obstacle to Building Broadband.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). A call to rebrand MOOCs , from Edsurge. Via Edsurge : “The Possibilities for Tech (and Screentime ) in the Preschool Classroom.” ” Or something.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Education Week : “ Trump Signs Orders on Rural Broadband Access.” Vox on segregation in US public schools : “We can draw school zones to make classrooms less segregated. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” The school: the Electronic Classroom of the Future.

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ California Should Watch Arkansas Process for Creating New Online Institution,” says Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill. ” According to WCET , “Developing Effective Courses Using Adaptive Learning Begins with Proper Alignment.”

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.” “Modern E-Rate Puts Telephones On Hold in K–12,” Education Week reports , noting that schools are struggling to pay for phone service (still totally necessary) as well as expanded broadband. ” More on this scramble to serve (profit from) low-income broadband customers in the upgrades/downgrades section below.

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” Via Multichannel News : “Trayvon Martin Attorney Parks Targets AT&T Over Alleged Broadband Redlining.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?” ” (In Cleveland.). a month.). .