A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2018

More and more schools have gone 1:1 thanks to the cost-effectiveness of the Chromebook and cloud-based tools. Emerging technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality, open education resources (OER), coding, and adaptive learning tools are moving more into the mainstream in some schools. Have you heard of it?

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OER Personal Learning Network Outcomes Blended Learning 241

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Buy them a beer when you see them at an event and thank them for covering the LMS industry so I don’t have to. Microsoft : “Microsoft launches Intune for Education to counter Google’s Chromebooks in schools,” Techcrunch reported in January. ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.)

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

The NAACP endorses OER. Via KIRO7 : “Charges filed after University of Washington shooting outside Milo Yiannopoulos event.” More in the courts section above on the charges filed against a person who shot a protestor at a Milo Yiannopoulos event at the University of Washington early this year. No neoliberalism here.

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Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. It’s now become a way in which educational events, organizations, and institutions dole out funding for projects. But the “spying” has continued. The TED Talk.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145