Shake Up Learning

MARCH 14, 2023

Right now, tech companies own AI. These companies have HUGE data mines, which will only make AI more powerful. We have already lost so much human connection to our “apps” and social media to the detriment of our children and young people. How much more can we afford to lose?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 23, 2018

We put a platform out there for you to get some ideas of how to make Virtual Valentines with your students. Just share that love on social media. Vicki: And we will put the link to that in the Shownotes for how to sign up. He’s the robot there. And that’s how I feel about when student connect on Skype.

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Learning STEM Social Media Facebook 179

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

From facial-recognition cameras to web and social media filtering software, surveillance technologies are finding their foothold in schools across America. But how much surveillance is acceptable, and what are the implications for students’ privacy rights? Ostensibly these tools are for the greater good—keeping kids safe.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

Robot”-like hackers striving for the greater good to take down “The Man.” The harsh truth is that all of us—along with our private data—are often the target, and we are constantly at risk for cyber-crimes, regardless of how blissfully unaware we remain of the threat. Last year, over 7.5 We’re talking about a need to fill upwards of 3.5

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2021

A video of Sam singing his co-written song, “ You Can Be ABCs ,” with his dad went viral on social media last fall. Their ideas are making a difference, from Ahmed Muhammad who created a company that provides STEM kits for kids, to Annie Ostojic who figured out how to make microwaves cook more evenly!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

Leandra Tejedor (25), cofounder of Vidcode , made the list for providing a coding curriculum that reaches students through social media videos (and has even partnered with Snapchat to teach users how to code their own filters).

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

We wanted to create a digital experience for kids that allows them to create things together, but isn’t saturated with the usual social-media-like engagement tools. Not only have they eschewed a social media setting for their digital playground, they’ve also steered clear of “gamifying” the experience.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

He’s worried that, rather than advancing our human potential, many edtech companies and universities are perpetuating the status quo. Rise of the robots Siemens has both an academic and an industry perspective on digital learning. Blogs, wikis and social media, on the other hand, are distributed across networks.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

Via The Verge : “US denies visas to Afghanistan ’s all-girl robotics team.” Via The Washington Post : “SEC settles fraud charges against defunct for-profit college company ITT.” Because honestly, where else would you put news about that private school company but in the surveillance section.

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EdTechTeam

MAY 19, 2017

Using Google Docs to help record their notes and the aid of research mentors to build their research skills, the students researched aspects of the classroom that interested them most while focusing on our three lines of inquiry: how kids learn best, types of learning technology, and the organization of space.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” There’s more on legal battles involving student loan companies in the business of financial aid section below. Via The New York Times : “ Karlie Kloss Teaches Teenage Girls How to Code.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Techcrunch : “This tortoise shows kids that robot abuse is bad.”

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techlearning

JULY 31, 2018

Content Exploring the Science of Happiness: Studies show that two out of three American teens are stressed and many don't know how to handle it. Discovery Education and LG have teamed up to take students on a virtual field trip (VFT) to understand how science-based skills and practices can help us achieve sustainable happiness. .

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 12, 2017

As global management consultants McKinsey and Company rightly identify, jobs in the near future will increasingly come under threat from artificial intelligence and robotics. They carry their personal technology around with them and know how to use it to connect and to communicate.

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Hubbli

JULY 31, 2017

Let’s look at how enrichment programs improve your school and what best practices to follow when running an enrichment program. Not sure how to implement an enrichment program in your Montessori school? Share it on your website, on your social media pages, and via your email newsletters. Lego Robotics. Click Here.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

It motivates people to reach reading goals by tracking when, how much, and what they read. The company has built several tools to do that, including a customizable reading challenge platform and a mobile app, reading challenge templates, and diverse book recommendations.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

There are the ones, overwhelmingly boys, who spend so much time playing video games that, in his words, they “fall behind in their social skills.” Then, there is a group of mostly girls who misuse and overuse social media. ” Often they are battling depression or anxiety, or may be on the autism spectrum.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It may be the biggest question in college edtech during the pandemic: Should tests be allowed to robotically watch students? Companies including ProctorU have long offered human test-watchers who sit in call centers and look in on test-takers through their webcams. The issue involves so-called automated proctoring services.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Thanks to the GEC Sponsors Social Media Amazing List of Currently Scheduled Sessions! We are grateful for companies and organizations who believe in the power of globally connected learning. Host Family Experiences in Study Abroad - Alexi Kim How can you build your personal global competence? We're Still Taking Proposals!

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Jacob Jun A few students will reach out to professionals on their own through social media and avenues such as LinkedIn. They regularly ask for advice on how to get a job or get into a career. Amazon seems to be here for the long term—not just as a company, but as an organization that wants to support students and their futures.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Part of our job as teachers and educators is to nurture a culture of debate in our classes, teach our students how to become better debaters, and how to voice their opinions in respectful and responsible ways. Should schools ban/allow access to social media websites ? Are social media websites making people asocial?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

STEAM-based learning emphasizes both hands-on and digital experiences with engineering, art, game design, prototyping in makerspaces, authoring, robotics, and much more. I treated my classroom like a business by investing in long-term purchases, I made an investment in my company.”. Website • Twitter • Free art lessons.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

But that technology won’t be entirely homegrown: Chinese companies, particularly those building products or services laced with the machine learning algorithms, are increasingly playing a role in the tools that we call “AI.” He’s written eight top-selling books in China and has more than 50 million followers on social media.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

It’s a reaction, I’d say, to the current obsession with artificial intelligence and a response to all the stories we were told this year about robots on the cusp of replacing, out-“thinking,” and out-working us. ” “ How to Measure Success Without Academic Achievement.”

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Technology Education Facebook Company 67

Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

The Internet did become more privatized, more commercialized around that date – 1991 – and thanks to companies like AOL, a version of it became more accessible to more people. Our Internet service providers today are likely telephone and TV companies. So we can reorganize the bar graph. But it’s still got problems.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Do you know that feeling when you are told your questions about student privacy are unfounded by a representative of a company that earns 86% of its total revenue from advertising? But school district leaders are not of one mind of how to best spend the money. The thread on this tweet has the details. That's a lot of computers.

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Fractus Learning

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Having a job you wanted at your favorite company. Imagine the world without gears; how will an egg beater, clocks, helicopters, or robotics work. Social Media. The friend who knows just how to do your hair and makeup for that special date. Social Media. When a team works well together.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

This leads to the “innovator’s dilemma,” described recently in The Economist as “the difficult choice an established company faces when it has to choose between holding onto an existing market by doing the same thing a bit better, or capturing new markets by embracing new technologies and adopting new business models.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Previously, she was a Technology Integrator at Sacred Heart teaching robotics and programming to 5th through 7th grades and supporting the faculty''s technology and integration needs. In the past, he turned his interest in technology into several successful online companies, including MyDesktop.com, which sold to Internet.com in 1999.

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Conference Education Pearson Technology 59

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Teachers will benefit greatly from high-quality professional development opportunities on how to effectively and responsibly incorporate AI tools into their educational ecosystems. An AI tech company can help by giving teachers the power of AI to scan text and turn it into well-designed slides. That’s over ten hours a week.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

” São Paulo has approved a bill that would allow companies to manufacture school uniforms and sell branding and sponsorship opportunities on the clothing. ProPublica with more news about Facebook and discrimination : “Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads.” million total.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

” But of course, that’s not quite true: my first introduction to Papert's work was actually a decade earlier, when I sat at an Apple II and taught a Turtle how to move about the screen. Others have argued the recent rash of layoffs at tech companies belies concerns there’s a worker shortage in that sector.

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Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

“Free College” “How to Pay for Free Community College ,” according to Inside Higher Ed. Via the AP: “A new federal lawsuit by Pennsylvania ’s attorney general says the nation’s largest student loan company engaged in abusive practices that have cost borrowers billions of dollars.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

I’ve never seen an education story receive quite as much attention from non-educators on social media. Here’s how a convention could do it.” And this prompted me to update my list of education / technology companies that are ALEC members.). It was a disaster. Via CNN : “ Rewrite the Constitution ?

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Via Politico : “A complex legal battle involving dozens of debt collection companies fighting over contracts with the Education Department has essentially suspended the government’s ability to collect defaulted student loans , the Trump administration disclosed in a court filing on Monday night.”

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Kaplan Education Blackboard MOOC 46

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

“ How George Mason Became Koch ’s Academic Darling.” Is Teaching Second-Graders How to Ride Bikes. ” “Frustrated with how colleges have handled their claims of sexual abuse , more students are turning to social media to publicize their cases,” Inside Higher Ed reports.

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

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.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

“What If a DNA Test Could Show How to Teach a Student With Dyslexia ?” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Probably my favorite “robots are the future of education” story in a good, long while. The textbook company has raised $6 million total. ” asks Education Week.

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