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Employer Credentials and Community Colleges: A Look Behind Google’s IT Support Certificate Program

Edsurge

These tech jobs cut across industry sectors and many of them can be characterized as “ middle-skill ”—those that require more education and training than a high school diploma, but less than a four-year college degree.

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What Problems Has Edtech Solved, and What New Ones Did It Create?

Edsurge

In education, does technology create just as many problems as it solves? Jessie Woolley-Wilson, CEO of DreamBox Learning Jessie Woolley-Wilson (CEO, DreamBox Learning): In the past, educators were focused on how to get more devices in the classroom. It may be up to the field of education. If so, what new challenges have emerged?

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Catch the #FlipgridFever

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

As a company, they celebrate the passion of educators, the wisdom of students, and the curiosity of families. Flipgrid is continuously celebrating the innovative uses of their tool by further amplifying student and educator voices on social media and presentations. They are simply an amazing group of people.

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3 Big Issues We Heard About at SXSWedu

Wired Campus

. — Student privacy, easier-to-use digital tools for instructors, and efforts to offer alternative credentials were some of the most-talked-about topics this week at the South by Southwest Edu conference, an offshoot of the popular South by Southwest music festival. Big data is coming to education, if it’s not here already. Mitchell L.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Oh yes, I’m sure you can come up with some rousing successes and some triumphant moments that made you thrilled about the 2010s and that give you hope for “the future of education.”

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

Hack Education

This is part eight of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In previous years, I’ve looked at how education technology is intertwined with narratives about “ skills ,” “ competencies ,” and “ credentialing.” “Lower ed” is far more pervasive.