eSpark

JULY 11, 2016

Over the course of the week, three themes dominated the conversation. Successful classroom technology should challenge and support every type of learner without widening the digital divide that’s often found in low-income and rural districts. Working Towards Equity with Edtech. Keeping in simple.

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User Generated Education

JULY 7, 2016

She studied neuroscience to find out how to identify signs of sleepiness, took an online course to learn how to create the computer code that would recognize those signs. Maker technologies such as Makey-Makey , littleBits , Arduinos , 3D Printers, and robotics kits provide opportunities for learners to experiment and invent for themselves.

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Maker Movement Education STEM Software 150

User Generated Education

OCTOBER 16, 2015

She studied neuroscience to find out how to identify signs of sleepiness, took an online course to learn how to create the computer code that would recognize those signs. Maker technologies such as Makey-Makey , littleBits , Arduinos , 3D Printers, and robotics kits provide opportunities for learners to experiment and invent for themselves.

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Maker Movement STEM Education Software 120

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Greeley offers a lens into how wide the digital divide in the US has become, how much it is contributing to a two-tiered society, and, perhaps most important, whether it can be bridged – something that will be crucial to keeping the country competitive in the global economy of tomorrow. Nor is he the only one on a digital crusade.

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Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 27, 2017

No disclosure in this or its Class Central article that it shares investors with these MOOC companies.). the nation’s largest virtual charter school management company , as president of academics, policy, and schools. Now he’s launching a new company – and of course it’s ed-tech. ” (No. .”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. The key word in that headline isn’t “digital”; it’s “force.”

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Rather Harvard has outsourced instruction to the for-profit company Trilogy Education. Count the misinformation in this piece in The 74 on the “ entrepreneurial mindset ” (in addition, of course, to the actual existence of something called an “entrepreneurial mindset.”). ” But it’s not Harvard.

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Education MOOC Report Data 54

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Via WaPo : “The FCC talks the talk on the digital divide – and then walks in the other direction.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Should Online Courses Go Through ‘Beta Testing’?” ” Those rules, of course, involve “ gainful employment.”

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Education Company MOOC Khan Academy 45

Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

” More on the Afghan robotics team in the contest section below. Also via Edsurge : “How Boundaries Between Colleges and Companies Will Continue to Blur.” ” “ Online courses will eventually replace traditional education ,” The Daily Californian predicts. for Robotics Contest.”

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Education Pearson Report Robotics 45

Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It was a slogan of the Occupy Movement too, of course, one reprised this year in the Presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders, who would frequently repeat that “Now is the time to create a government which represents all Americans and not just the 1%.” They are underrepresented in AP courses.

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