Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. Let me share some materials here, along with reflections on the conference. I helped start the conference with a half-day workshop on “How Technology Can Enhance Liberal Education: The State of the Art in 2016.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Today is the final day of our five-day 2013 Global Education Conference. To receive the daily conference schedule, be sure to join the Global Education Conference network. Our free conference runs all week and is open to anyone to attend--spread the word with Twitter hashtag # globaled13. You have been awesome!

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AUGUST 31, 2021

In classrooms everywhere, children called on to read aloud. For classroom teachers, the responsibility of monitoring and ensuring the reading progress of more than 20 students who may be in various face-to-face, hybrid or remote settings can be a painstaking and tedious process.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 28, 2016

Welcome to a post that I feel is a must read when it comes to instructional technology in the classroom of the 21st century! I bring you this as I get ready to join the ASCD Press Core at the annual ASCD Conference in Atlanta, GA. Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. What comes next?

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MAY 1, 2019

In a recent edWebinar , Christine Fox, Deputy Executive Director of SETDA, offered highlights from the report, and Ryan Kocsondy, Director of Connecticut Education Network (CEN), gave an inside look at why Connecticut schools don’t worry about running out of bandwidth. From the classroom to home, Kajeet has students covered.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 29, 2015

The event was inspired by and organized in partnership with Dr. Sue Alman of the SJSU School of Information, and designed to complement the fifth annual Library 2.015 Worldwide Virtual Conference on October 20th, 2015. Saturday, June 6th at 12pm CR20 LIVE Weekly Show - Canva with Lisa Johnson @TechChef4u , Classroom 2.0 Register here.

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DECEMBER 9, 2017

For updates on the other major LMS providers – or at least, dispatches from their annual conferences, read Mindwires’ Consulting on Instructure , Blackboard , and D2L. “Facebook Giving Virtual-Reality Kits to Every Arkansas High School,” Education Week reported in August. Subscribe to their blog.

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DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. You can now find out. NAACP Letters.

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Kathy Schrock

DECEMBER 1, 2016

VIRTUAL REALITY Virtual reality hit the educational community in 2016 with the release of the low-cost 360° cameras (like the Ricoh Theta series) and the prominent use of Google Cardboard headsets for classroom use. In my Kathy’s Katch April column , I covered how and why educators might want to use virtual reality in the classroom.

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APRIL 18, 2018

Each year, the conference organizers try to broaden the conversation. happened on the Sunday evening before the first day of the conference. When to Buy, When to Sell It’s only fitting at this conference that there’d be at least one session with this exact title. The Innovators of Color award was front and center.

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

.” 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.” AllAfrica reports that the Kenyan government will begin distributing some 1.2

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NOVEMBER 24, 2017

“ Tax bill reflects rift between many Republicans and higher education,” The Washington Post reports. Restores Pell Eligibility to Nearly 300,000 Students,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. Via Getting Smart : “How Competency-Based Education Can Lead to A More Equitable Classroom.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Perhaps the disappearance (and reported murder) of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi doesn’t seem like an education technology story. “ Montana vote becomes a national referendum on public confidence in higher ed ,” says The Hechinger Report. ” Contests and Conferences. But it matters.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Via The LA Times : “Trump is ending Michelle Obama’s ‘ Let Girls Learn ’ initiative, CNN reports.” .” Via NPR : “Under Trump Budget , Nearly 2 Million Kids May Lose After-School Care.” The school in question: Bethune-Cookman University. More court cases in the sports section below.

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JULY 1, 2016

The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. ” “ Kansas lawmakers, trying to head off a court shutdown of the state’s public schools, have increased aid to poor districts by $38 million,” NPR reports. ” Rebrand. .”

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Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

“ Conservative High Schoolers Want to ‘Own the Libs’,” The Atlantic’s Adam Harris reports from the Turning Point USA ’s conference. ” Coleman University will close, IHE reports. classrooms in new deal with McGraw-Hill Education.” Go, School Sports Team!

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Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

.” “ Colorado Education Commissioner Rich Crandall announced his resignation Thursday just four-and-a-half months into the job, shocking the state’s education community and roiling the state Department of Education as it embarks on a number of critical initiatives,” Chalkbeat Colorado reports.

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MARCH 16, 2018

The Department of Education’s Chief Privacy Officer Kathleen Styles has been “reassigned,” Education Week reports. ” The Wall Street Journal reports that the Trump Administration might limit the number of visas available to Chinese students. ” “It” in the headline is the DC Public Schools.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

.” “More than 150 House and Senate Democrats sent Education Secretary Betsy DeVos a letter Monday that objected to her department’s recently announced shift in how it chooses the contractors that service federal student loans ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. State and Local) Education Politics. Via Reuters : “U.S.

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

.” In other Department of Education bureaucratic nightmares, “Dozens of Colleges’ Upward Bound Applications Are Denied for Failing to Dot Every I,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. The NAACP endorses OER. Testing, Testing… “Nation’s Report Card Finds Mixed Grades For U.S.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Horizon Report. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. But as the ed-tech sector is never willing to let a bad idea die, the report will live on. The Flipped Classroom". with Pigeons.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

More on the Republicans’ tax plans – Via Education Week : “New Senate Tax Plan Doubles Teachers’ Deduction for Buying Classroom Supplies.” ” “ Google Is Being Investigated By Missouri Attorney General,” Fortune reports. ” This is terrible and will hurt poor people.

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Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

There’s lots more from Betsy DeVos’s talk at SXSWedu in the conferences section below. ” An “innovation pod” is actually a private classroom in a shipping container. ” “The Trump administration just failed to stop a climate lawsuit brought by 21 kids,” The Chicago Tribune reports.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

” “Betsy DeVos Won’t Shed Stake in Biofeedback Company , Filings Show,” The New York Times reports. Via The Guardian : “ Trump bans agencies from ‘providing updates on social media or to reporters’ ” This ban has been targeted at scientists at the EPA and USDA in particular.

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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. .”

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Hack Education

MAY 26, 2017

“ Betsy DeVos Refuses to Rule Out Giving Funds to Schools That Discriminate ,” The New York Times reports. Via Edsurge : “Possible ‘Fraud, Theft, Waste, and Abuse’: Report Questions NYC School Broadband Spending.” More Education Politics. TBH, there’s plenty of blame to go around.

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