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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) Are any education technologies, for that matter? It’s not even an LMS, quite frankly – something Edmodo tried to use as a selling point for a little while. They’re amazing.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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He also knew that the notion of introducing what he called “learning engineers” would face resistance from faculty convinced they already knew perfectly well what they were doing in their classrooms. “A In recent years, Simon’s ideas have found new traction, thanks to new computing technologies that would have seemed alien in the ’60s.

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Machine Teaching, Machine Learning, and the History of the Future of Public Education

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These are my prepared remarks, delivered on a panel titled “Outsourcing the Classroom to Ed Tech & Machine-learning: Why Parents & Teachers Should Resist” at the Network for Public Education conference in Indianapolis. MOOCs were going to change everything. The other panelists were Peter Greene and Leonie Haimson.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. ”) How accurate are her observations?

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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This is the second part of my much-abbreviated look at the stories that were told about education technology in 2018 – and in this case, the people who funded the storytellers. I assumed that they looked to see if the company could do what it promised – financially, technologically. The technology did not work.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via the AP : “A South Carolina solicitor says a sheriff’s deputy will face no charges for tossing a student across a classroom after she refused to put away her cellphone.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” The school in question: the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” That’s Dallas Dance , who was the subject of another story the NYT’s Natasha Singer wrote last year , “ How Silicon Valley Plans to Conquer the Classroom.” ” asks MIT Technology Review.