User Generated Education

JULY 7, 2016

Information Access and Information Abundance. What this means for young people is that they are growing up in DIY cultures, where they have role models who engage in DIY and where they have 24-7 access to information and technological resources. Information Access and Abundance. Focus on STEM and STEAM Education.

Maker Movement 150

Maker Movement Education STEM Software 150

User Generated Education

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Information Access and Information Abundance. What this means for young people is that they are growing up in DIY cultures, where they have role models who engage in DIY and where they have 24-7 access to information and technological resources. Information Access and Abundance. Focus on STEM and STEAM Education.

Maker Movement 120

Maker Movement STEM Education Software 120

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Kids from black and Latino communities — who are often already on the wrong side of the digital divide — will face greater inequalities if we go too far toward digitizing education without considering how to check the inherent biases of the (mostly white) developers who create AI systems.

Digital Divide 96

Digital Divide System Assessment Robotics 96

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.

Laptops 40

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. .”

MOOC 47

MOOC Education Company Coursera 47

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. And “free” doesn’t last. Um, they do.)

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Rather Harvard has outsourced instruction to the for-profit company Trilogy Education. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Short-term-jobs-for-students company Student Pop has raised $3.4 Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. ” But it’s not Harvard. ”). . million total.

Education 54

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.” Here’s a trend to watch in 2017 : companies and organizations who “help” schools buy ed-tech : The Hechinger Report looks at a couple of these , LEAP Innovations and LearnLaunch.

Education 45

Education Company MOOC Khan Academy 45

Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Preferential admissions says if you somehow manage to navigate all those other legacies of slavery – wealth disparities, income disparities, information disparities – then we will give you additional consideration in admissions. None of this has played out equitably, as the benefits have accrued in management and not by labor.

Technology 40

Technology Education Pearson Company 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

” There’s more education-related legal news down in the information security section below. Doesn’t look like the company has anyone to take his place yet. It’s a rot at the very core of the company’s leadership team. Are Charged in Prostitution Investigation.” tuition-free, Ryan announces.”

Education 60

Education Khan Academy Company MOOC 60