Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Do you know that feeling when you are told your questions about student privacy are unfounded by a representative of a company that earns 86% of its total revenue from advertising? The thread on this tweet has the details. “I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link].

EdTech 170

EdTech Chromebook Laptops iPad 170

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Showing the Algorithms Behind New York City Services | New York Times → Algorithms can decide where kids go to school, how often garbage is picked up, which police precincts get the most officers, where building code inspections should be targeted, and even what metrics are used to rate a teacher.

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Showing the Algorithms Behind New York City Services | New York Times → Algorithms can decide where kids go to school, how often garbage is picked up, which police precincts get the most officers, where building code inspections should be targeted, and even what metrics are used to rate a teacher.

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

The Cornerstone for Teachers

MAY 17, 2023

This works for the “average” reader, but teachers know that classrooms do not merely comprise grade-level readers. While I would personally say the task of curating a classroom library has been easier as a 2nd-grade teacher, I still have students spanning kindergarten-4th grade reading levels. I love my classroom library.

Secondary 72

Secondary Libraries Groups E-rate 72

Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

.” Via The New York Times : “ New Mexico Outlaws School ‘Lunch Shaming’ ” Via Buzzfeed : “ California Shows The Rest Of The Country How To Boost Kindergarten Vaccination Rates.” ” Udacity has updated its online "classroom." ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

Education 44

Education E-rate MOOC Data 44

Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

Via Education Week : “ E-Rate , Other Universal-Service Funds to Be Transferred to U.S. Not really ed-tech-related, except for all those companies saying they’re “Uber for education.” The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative ’s CTO, Brian Pinkerton , is leaving the company. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

Education 45

Education Coursera Khan Academy MOOC 45

Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

” At least the e-cigarette company (which targets teens) offers a social-emotional learning curriculum, right? ” Via the AP : “ District of Columbia Mayor Muriel E. I mean, clearly the company has a strong grasp on the politics of information. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

Education 46

Education MOOC Robotics Company 46

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Vox on segregation in US public schools : “We can draw school zones to make classrooms less segregated. awards debt collection contract to company with ties to DeVos.” ” Via Buzzfeed : “Here’s How A Student Loan Debt Relief Company Preyed On Its Customers.” This is how well your district does.”

Education 43

Education Company Blackboard Kaplan 43

Hack Education

AUGUST 10, 2018

Via Edsurge : “Why the FCC ’s E-rate Makes Funding High-Speed Internet a Slow Crawl.” “The Saga of Ohio ’s Embattled E-School Is Coming to an End,” writes Education Week’s Ben Herold. Via The Atlantic : “ School-Security Companies Are Thriving in the Era of Mass Shootings.”

E-rate 44

E-rate Education Robotics Elsevier 44

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Via the AP : “One of the nation’s largest student loan servicing companies may have driven tens of thousands of borrowers struggling with their debts into higher-cost repayment plans. the nation’s third-largest student loan servicing company.” Private School With Low Vaccination Rates.”

Education 52

Education LMS Robotics E-rate 52

Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

Via Education Week : “ FCC Chair Moves to Block E-Rate Funds for Companies Deemed ‘Security Risk’ ” (State and Local) Education Politics. “A Response to Larry Berger’s ‘Confession’ on Personalized Learning ” by New Classrooms’ Joel Rose. 3DBear has raised $1.5

Education 45

Education MOOC E-rate Facebook 45

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

.” “Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019,” says Edsurge. Buzzfeed on the Parkland school shooting survivors : “‘It was like a war in the classroom. Sometimes it’s fun to look back at old stories that the tech press dutifully pumped out about this company.

Education 58

Education MOOC Social Media E-rate 58

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Via Masslive.com : “ Massachusetts state government announced a new partnership with an online education company on Thursday to help public employees and the state’s public universities take advantage of online classes.” ” The company in question: edX. Contests and Awards. Upgrades and Downgrades.

Education 40

Education Coursera Facebook Social Media 40

Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ For-Profit Companies With the Highest Enrollments at Their Colleges, Fall 2016.” “How a Faculty Trip to Silicon Valley Changed the Classroom Experience,” according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. despite having Arizona ’s third-highest dropout rate.”

Education 46

Education MOOC Kaplan Robotics 46

Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

” (Juul is an e-cigarette that markets its product to teens and peddles social emotional learning content.). ” Via Cleveland.com : “National e-school figure to test new approach to online learning here in Ohio.” classrooms in new deal with McGraw-Hill Education.” ” The company: Abl Schools.

Education 43

Education MOOC E-rate Coursera 43

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Tell me one thing you remember about yesterday’s lesson on expansions and tax on Native Americans,” Tatro said, pacing the front of the classroom. The great irony is that the multimillion-dollar cable was planted in the Arctic by an Anchorage-based telecommunications company thanks, in large part, to global warming.

Broadband 80

Broadband Report Accessibility Video 80

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. The Flipped Classroom". And “free” doesn’t last.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

“5 Reasons Why e-textbooks in Egypt Would Be Inequitable” by Maha Bali. ” Via NBC News : “How to Thrive: Arianna Huffington Launches E-Learning Series.” Greiff has previously been a partner at the 1776 venture fund and he was also a co-founder of the test prep company Grockit. ” asks Jade E.

Education 47

Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” Via Politico : “Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has increased her financial stake in a ‘neurofeedback’ company that says its technology treats attention deficit disorder and the symptoms of autism. ” asks Chester E. ” $100,000. ” (State and Local) Education Politics. Education in the Courts.

Education 43

Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

opens door for student loan companies to ignore state authority.” This isn’t really financial aid per se, but it’s part of the larger suite of financial products that schools (and the companies they partner with) push. ” Via Wired : “Tech Companies Try to Retrain the Workers They’re Displacing.”

Education 46

Education MOOC Company Report 46

Hack Education

APRIL 27, 2018

Via Chalkbeat : “Robotics is bringing Betsy DeVos to Detroit for the first time as education secretary.” For your “yes, Microsoft is still horrible files,” this from The Washington Post : “ E-waste recycler Eric Lundgren loses appeal on computer restore disks, must serve 15-month prison term.”

Education 44

Education Facebook Company MOOC 44

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Via The Verge : “ Juul has 60 days to prove it can keep its e-cigs away from kids, FDA warns.” ” ECOT is the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, an online charter school. ” (Also from Hill : “Timeline of e-Literate Coverage of Blackboard Learn Ultra.”). ” She’s 9. They’re a s.

Education 54

Education MOOC Blackboard E-rate 54

Hack Education

MARCH 24, 2017

officials approve new rating system.” Via The USA Today : “Kids on winning robotics team told, ‘Go back to Mexico’ ” The kids were from Pleasant Run Elementary School in Indianapolis. Via The New York Times : “ CUNY to Revamp Remedial Programs, Hoping to Lift Graduation Rates.”

Education 52

Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 52

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The highlight: I visited a school on Friday and met with some wonderful, genuine, sincere teachers who pour their heart and soul into their classrooms and their students and our conversation was not long enough to draw out of them what is limiting them from being even more success from what they are currently. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

Education 46

Education Khan Academy Robotics MOOC 46

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

Via The Chicago Tribune : “ Chance the Rapper writes $1 million check to CPS as a ‘call to action’ ” “The History of the Future of E-rate ” by me. ” New Nanodegrees from Udacity : Digital Marketing and Robotics. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Robots hate the Common Core.

Education 46

Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” The article is accompanied by a photo of a classroom full of Asian students – as if Asian is not American. Shernaz Daver , Udacity ’s chief marketing officer, is leaving the company. Via Edsurge : “​How Apple , Salesforce and Other ‘ Platform ’ Companies Can Help Close the Skills Gap.”

Education 45

Education Facebook Company Report 45

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

” They’re suing the company. 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. “G Suite.”).

MOOC 40

MOOC Education Robotics Report 40

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

Via Education Week : “ DeVos-Backed Company Makes Questionable Claims on Autism , ADHD.” ” “Betsy DeVos Won’t Shed Stake in Biofeedback Company , Filings Show,” The New York Times reports. ” Via Real Clear Education : “Connecting Schools to the Future: Rethinking E-Rate.”

Education 40

Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 40

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

But DeVos “believes that technology has a role to play in the classroom,” Edsurge writes in response to the confirmation , which I guess means ed-tech can overlook all of her horrible beliefs that further educational inequalities as long as it means more people buy digital things and hire Edsurge to facilitate that process. .”

Education 40

Education MOOC E-rate Robotics 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2016

million in charges from a Minnesota company over a software system that repeatedly failed during mandatory statewide elementary school testing.” ” “ ClassDojo Is Teaching Kids Empathy In 90% Of K–8 Schools Nationwide,” says Fast Company. ” Pay attention to student loan companies !

Education 40

Education Report E-rate Company 40