Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

” that by 2019 half of all high school classes will be taught over the internet ; Raised questions about a new study on personalized learning ; Added four new incidents to the K-12 cyber incident map ; and. I dislike fraudulent courses. Enter personalized learning (PL)." Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update October 21st, 2014 In a gentle way, you can shake the world. Mahatma Gandhi The Learning Revolution Project holds online and physical learning events, and highlights professional development opportunities from a network of 200 partners in the learning professions.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This year’s Future of Education Technology Conference landed in New Orleans, and the conference was abuzz with post-pandemic learning recovery tools, solutions to promote equity among students and parents, strategies for digital access, student mental health, social and emotional learning tools, and more.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update March 18th All of life is a constant education. Eleanor Roosevelt The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn--and even how we think about learning. Interested in becoming a Learning Revolution Partner? Follow #RSCON5 for updates.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

s Memory OS offer fun and engaging ways to improve learning skills. Opportunities for technology-enabled learning extend beyond AI. In recent years, we’ve seen huge growth in edtech as companies partner with educators to develop software and hardware that can support teaching and learning. With more than three quarters of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

– China’s state-controlled news broadcasters have long been considered somewhat robotic in their daily recitation of pro-government propaganda, and a pair of new presenters will do little to dispel that view. We are now living in a world in which robots do many of the jobs we once thought the preserve of humans.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2020

schools accessing high-speed broadband, and devices all but ubiquitous in the classroom, the question is no longer whether teachers and students are using technology, but how. Kolb, who co-teaches the course with two University of Michigan colleagues, emphasized that the course is not “sit and get. With 99 percent of U.S.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

One overused catchphrase in education is that learning should be “student-centered.” Not quite enough time for our robot overlords to overtake us, but both distant and soon enough to make us wonder. This Chrome OS share, of course, has made Microsoft angry. One, Bamboo Learning, interactively teaches music theory and math.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Instead, each team member spent a few minutes sketching out how one part — a marble run, say, or a Lego Robotics kicking foot — would operate within the machine. Computational thinking is intimately related to computer coding, which every kid in South Fayette starts learning in first grade. No single child designed a complete machine.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative have released the latest NMC Horizon Report for Higher Education. Of course, the Horizon Report dates back to 2004, so this is only a partial look back at its own history. Adaptive Learning Technologies. Mobile Learning. Blended Learning Designs.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The New York Times notes it’s not just rural students who struggle with broadband access : “Why San Jose Kids Do Homework in Parking Lots.” Via The Atlantic : “Why Young Pakistanis Are Learning Chinese.” .” “ Rural Kids Face an Internet ‘Homework Gap.’ on Coursera.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Two school districts in two states are scaling back their use of the Facebook -built Summit Public Schools ’ learning management system. Via Edsurge : “ Connecticut School District Suspends Use of Summit Learning Platform.” ” Via The Indiana Gazette : “Directors vote to scale back Summit Learning program.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Via The New York Times : “ Broadband Law Could Force Rural Residents Off Information Superhighway.” ” Of course, you have to pay $300 for this “features.” Microsoft first launched these in 1992 , but let’s all pretend like the learn-to-code alt-certification thing is brand new.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Of course, the US can’t let the UK lead for too long when it comes to terrible people and terrible ideas in education. Congratulations, STEM folks and learn-to-code evangelists, for being featured in President Trump’s list of his 2017 accomplishments. ” “Special bracelets” are, of course, ed-tech.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” DeVos visited my hometown of Casper, Wyoming to give this speech where she spoke at the Woods Learning Center. That’s not the story that DeVos wants to tell, of course.). The accreditor: the Higher Learning Commission. ” Via Getting Smart : “ Virtual and Augmented Reality in Personalized Learning.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

Edsurge runs with Trump’s promise to boost rural broadband like it’s a truth anyone can count on. ” The charter school, which is closing it doors, is the Merit Preparatory Charter School , run by “personalized learning” charter chain Matchbook Learning. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

They have to learn early.”. The school overlooks plush sand-colored condos and a sprawling golf course community that has drawn wealthier families to the area. Related: Blue-collar town leads Rhode Island’s tech-assisted learning revolution. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. It’s perhaps not surprising.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Via Education Week : “ FCC Delays, Denials Foil Rural Schools’ Broadband Plans.” “Learning Creative Learning: It’s not a MOOC , it’s a community,” says the MIT Media Lab. “ Neuroeducation Will Lead to Big Breakthroughs in Learning,” says Singularity Hub.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Then, without missing a beat, she switched the smartboard display and launched into a multiple-choice quiz using a game-based online learning platform called Kahoot! Given this challenging landscape, it’s a matter of consensus here that robust, video-based distance-learning programs are critical to preparing students for college and careers.

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

” The Trump Administration is calling it “ restoring Internet freedom ,” because of f **g course. ” Via Multichannel News : “Trayvon Martin Attorney Parks Targets AT&T Over Alleged Broadband Redlining.” ” Via NBC News : “How to Thrive: Arianna Huffington Launches E-Learning Series.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Eric Holcomb says Indiana ’s low-rated online charter schools need ‘immediate attention and action’ ” Via Motherboard : “Half of West Virginia has Applied for Broadband Assistance.” ” Of course he is. “ Should Children Form Emotional Bonds With Robots? Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

MARCH 2, 2018

Via Motherboard : “The FCC ’s New Broadband Map Paints an Irresponsibly Inaccurate Picture of American Broadband.” ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Lessons Learned From a $75 Million Failed Experiment.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Via Wired : “ Ajit Pai ’s Plan Will Take Broadband Away From Poor People.” ” Of course. ” In other learn-to-code news, the press release says that “ Mattel Expands Partnership With Tynker , Setting Goal To Introduce 10 Million Kids To Coding By 2020.” More via Inside Higher Ed.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

” Via Ars Technica : “Senate Democrats fight FCC plan to lower America’s broadband standards.” million to cover federal funds that went to the botched statewide school broadband contract.” Via Tony Bates : “Responses to the Canadian survey of online and distance learning.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 31, 2017

“Higher education and library associations called on the Federal Communications Commission Thursday to uphold Obama-era rules requiring broadband providers to treat all traffic on the internet equally,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” (She is the CEO is Dreambox Learning.). ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

” “Republicans try to take cheap phones and broadband away from poor people,” Ars Technica reports. monthly subsidies toward cellular phone service or mobile broadband. Via EdSource : “ Cal State drops intermediate algebra as requirement to take some college-level math courses.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Via Pacific Standard : “Why Is the FCC Considering Cutting Broadband Access for Students?” Via The Times Higher Education : “For-profit claims ‘learning gain’ victory over universities.” ” Apparently it’s all Audre Lorde ’s fault, because of course it is.

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Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

In addition to the anti-First Amendment supporter Thiel, Jackson also name-dropped her connections to David Horowitz , a long-time advocate for silencing left-learning professors on campus, in order to get her job. Via The New York Times Magazine : “What Teenagers Are Learning From Online Porn.” Via Edsurge : “?In

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

” StraighterLine , an unaccredited online course provider, will partner with Brookhaven College in Texas to offer a joint associate degree to students this August. Students will complete more than 50 percent of their course work online through the StraighterLine platform. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

DeVos, of course, was a stakeholder in the student loan startup SoFi. ” Via Education Week : “ FCC Revokes Decision Allowing Companies to Provide Low-Income Families With Subsidized Broadband.” Technology is transforming education, with personalised learning at the heart of the curriculum. Is this the future?”

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Hack Education

MAY 26, 2017

Via Edsurge : “Possible ‘Fraud, Theft, Waste, and Abuse’: Report Questions NYC School Broadband Spending.” ” University of Colorado Denver students can earn college credit by taking courses at the coding bootcamp Galvanize. More on DeVos’s ed-tech investments in the research section below.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Education , of course. Via The New York Times : “ Udacity , an Online Learning Start-Up, Offers Tech Job Trials.” ” “ Make Writing Classes Larger and Other Heresies of Connected Courses” by Justin Reich. Maybe instead of learning to code, people should read up on anti-fascist activism.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Mozilla announced it is handing the Open Badges initiative to the IMS Global Learning Consortium. Via Campus Technology : “ Learning Objects Debuts Competency-Based Education Platform.” ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “When the Teaching Assistant Is a Robot.” ” So says the FCC.

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