The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2014

She is a recent recipient of ISTE’s first place SIGOL Online Learning Award (2013) and a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert. Participants will first learn about teaching students digital citizenship using a free K-12 curriculum aligned to Common Core Standards, available online or on iPads. Join here and follow #liveclass20.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

Although no doubt, Microsoft, now the owner of Minecraft, would like us all to repeat that particular storyline.) The Gates Foundation has backed a variety of education reform initiatives : charter schools, the Common Core State Standards, “small schools,” inBloom, teacher evaluations, and yes, “personalized learning.”

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JULY 21, 2018

The boom and bust of Common Core standards have left their mark, just as new concerns over media literacy and privacy are doing currently. As a director for Common Sense Education , I’ve enjoyed something of a ringside seat, having edited close to 1,000 edtech reviews written by expert educators.

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DECEMBER 20, 2017

Claims on Social Media : Students consider the sources of a tweet and the information contained in it in order to describe what makes it both a useful and not useful source of information. Social Media Video : Students watch an online video and identify its strengths and weaknesses.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

According to excerpts of speeches published by Wikileaks – stolen data – Clinton called the Common Core a “political failure” in a speech she gave to Knewton. Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Microsoft -Branded MOOCs for K–12 Leaders.” Education Politics. . ” More via The NYT.

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MAY 5, 2017

Microsoft had a media event this week. Via The New York Times : “Microsoft Looks to Regain Lost Ground in the Classroom.” ” “Microsoft’s new education push plays to its strengths, the cheap and familiar,” says Techcrunch. Here is the Microsoft blog post announcing its new products.

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APRIL 3, 2017

It ignores what happens in Seattle: the home of Amazon, Microsoft, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Technology companies, on the other hand, seem well poised to do so – not just Microsoft, but Google and Apple, of course. It ignores what happens in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for example: the site of Harvard and MIT.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Of course, teachers have utilized social media sites for years to launch various side-hustles — speaking gigs and “ brand ambassadorships ”, for example — as well as to facilitate their main hustle — you know, teaching. The incident, she added, had also made her aware that “Pearson is monitoring all social media during PARCC testing.”

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MAY 27, 2016

Testing, Testing… “ Common Core testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on social media,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. “ Gates Foundation CEO Admits Underestimating Common-Core Challenges.” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

” For those keeping track of how great social media is for the future of education and knowledge and civics and such: “Last Year, Social Media Was Used to Influence Elections in at Least 18 Countries ,” says the MIT Technology Review. More shadiness from Thiel in the campus news section below.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2016

” I’m a little surprised that either of these women – both Democrats, both Common Core supporters, if nothing else – would be under serious consideration. is disappointed in Common Core. ” “ Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation ,” Techcrunch reports. population.”

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DECEMBER 2, 2016

Microsoft and Apple are two. The Common Core. Last year, I chose “ Social Media, Campus Activism, and Free Speech ” as one of my “ Top Ed-Tech Trends.” Perhaps finance has exacerbated the problem by insisting on the generic industrial term “technology” as a synonym for computing.

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