MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

Conferences for teachers from coast to coast brim with representatives from the multibillion-dollar technology industry, many of them promising to help teachers provide customized tracks for education. Google’s search engine serves up more of what you’ve clicked on in the past. I see their confidence level take off.

Personalized Learning 28

Personalized Learning Technology Knewton Learning 28

eSchool News

MARCH 22, 2019

A : The traditional textbook has been in a state of transformation for some time now, and 2019 marks an important year of acceptance from the education industry and outside influencers who recognize where its path is leading. Those of us in the industry have all heard about the impending “death of the textbook.”

EdTech 111

EdTech Industry Common Core Study 111

Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Here’s a chronological roundup of stories that made the biggest bang on the edtech industry (and to a similar extent, our web traffic) in 2016. AltSchool has raised more than $100 million on the back of “microschools,” its name for small, private schools where software is infused in the learning experience. Let history be the guide.

EdTech 73

EdTech Khan Academy Company Common Core 73

Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

“Trump Taps Common-Core Foe Mick Zais for No. ” “According to my observations, the standard Seattle Nazi is a white male under 30 who either works in the tech industry or is going to school to work in the tech industry” – from David Lewis’ story in The Stranger about white nationalists in Seattle.

Education 49

Education Robotics Company MOOC 49

Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

Via The Washington Post : “There’s a well-funded campus industry behind the Ann Coulter incident.” CNN tries to explain “Why Google , Apple and Microsoft are battling for education.” “Someone Hit the Internet with a Massive Google Doc Phishing Attack ,” Motherboard Vice reports.

Kaplan 46

Kaplan Education Blackboard MOOC 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. And “free” doesn’t last. 3D Printing. I know, I know.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

I use “Silicon Valley” in my work as a shorthand to describe the contemporary high tech industry – its tech and just as importantly, its ideology. Silicon Valley does include Mountain View, where Google is headquartered. I’d say even more specifically, they’re California- and Silicon Valley-centric.

Trends 64

Trends Company MOOC Edmodo 64

Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

Testing, Testing… “ Nevada officials announced Tuesday that a common-core assessment consortium will credit the state $1.8 Via Education Next : “The Politics of the Common Core Assessments.” Via Education Week : “Ed-Tech Software Group Objects to Messages in Feds’ #GoOpen Campaign.”

Education 40

Education Blackboard Common Core MOOC 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

For the last five or six years, education technology has been largely talked about in terms of “startups,” something that helps position the industry as an outsider and an underdog. ” The agendas of other foundations – big and small – often echo those of Gates. The Elephants in the Ed-Tech Room.

Technology 40

Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

There was some talk that, despite being vociferously anti-union , Michelle Rhee’s support for the Common Core was allegedly a deal-breaker. Of course, DeVos has supported groups that back the Common Core in the past, including Jeb Bush ’s Foundation for Excellence in Education. She serves on its board.)

Education 40

Education Pearson Common Core Report 40

Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

According to the conservative news site The Daily Caller , “Bailing On Common Core Tests Is Costing States Millions.” “ Apple , Microsoft , Amazon and Google Are Fighting a War for the Classroom,” says Edutechnica , with a look at how many colleges have adopted their competing pseudo-LMSes.

Education 48

Education MOOC Company Report 48

Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

But you’re full of fallacy yourself if you think that’s going to stop me from making critiques about this industry. And speaking of copyrighting a language of a warlike people, the Oracle v Google case had its closing arguments this week. “ Gates Foundation CEO Admits Underestimating Common-Core Challenges.”

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Education MOOC Common Core Trends 52

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

” Via Education Week : “The Ohio education department could seek repayment of more than $80 million from nine full-time online schools , based on audits of software-login records that led state officials to determine the schools had overstated their student enrollment.” Robots hate the Common Core.

Education 46

Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46

Hack Education

AUGUST 18, 2017

Tune into the Contrafabulists podcast this weekend, when Kin Lane and I will discuss the response (or lack thereof) from the tech industry, including Cloudflare , Spotify , Squarespace , GoDaddy , Google , the EFF , and others. Via Edsurge : “Software Helps Instructors Stop Mangling Hard-to-Pronounce Student Names.”

Education 49

Education MOOC Report Data 49

Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The technology industry – its products and its politics – furthers inequality, particularly in its own backyard in the Bay Area. ” Despite all the Common Core-aligned revisions and all the headlines to the contrary, “ The New SAT Won’t Close the Achievement Gap.” ” (Shocking, I know.)

Technology 40

Technology Education Pearson Company 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Testing, Testing… Via Education Week : “The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium , a major designer of common-core tests for states, is looking for a new fiscal agent after the University of California, Los Angeles, said it will no longer do that work.” Excellent work, education technology industry.

Education 40

Education Company Pearson E-rate 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

It treats “ed-tech” as the result of markets and industry and “innovation,” and not as the result of policy or history. There is No Technology Industry (There is Only Ideology). “ There is no ‘technology industry’ ,” technology writer and entrepreneur Anil Dash wrote in August.

Technology 40

Technology Education Facebook Company 40