Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2020

From digital certificates to learning analytics, here are eight EdTech trends to look forward to in the coming months. Video-assisted Learning. Gone are the days when teachers had to drag TVs into classrooms to let students watch films. Now, nearly every classroom is at least equipped with a screen and projector.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

Stephen Downes , senior researcher at the National Research Council of Canada and co-creator of the MOOC, began with an overview of the predictive process, saying it “isn’t magic, but it’s not mechanical either.” And he’s seen “a laundry list” of promising examples over the last few years. I don’t think that’s what’s going on here.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” NPR asks whose bones made up those old classroom skeletons. Why the Diverse Charter School Model Is Being Gentrified.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). The company sold The Financial Times and its stake in The Economist in 2015, for example.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

And yet it is naive and even misleading to pretend as though education technology exists separately from either of those – from the politics of DC, the politics of local school boards, or the politics of Silicon Valley, for example. Beyond the MOOC. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” (This is a good example of how ed-tech advocacy-posing-as-journalism operates – you get funded by an organization and then you get to “break the news” about that organization. ” The virtual charter school in question: ECOT.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). The Flipped Classroom". Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools.

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