Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2020

With more educational institutions adopting virtual learning management systems (such as Moodle, Edmodo, etc.), there are more opportunities for students to input valuable personal data. This grants schools more insight into their learning behavior, which then helps teachers come up with more effective curriculums in the future.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 8, 2013

They desperately sought time during the school day to engage in professional growth opportunities, learn how to integrate Web 2.0 tools, and develop their own Personal Learning Networks (PLN’s). The only catch was that each staff member had to create and present a learning portfolio at his/ her end of year evaluation conference.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2018

Earlier this week more than 18,000 attendees from 87 countries gathered in Chicago for ISTE, one of the largest K-12 education technology conferences and trade shows in the world. The company describes it as a “digital, adaptive personalized learning solution.” Look what the wind blew into the Windy City.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 24, 2018

At a conference on tech addiction in February, the former Google design ethicist shared with EdSurge his concerns about the role of technology platforms in the the classroom. Some of Coursera’s most popular courses aren’t taught by universities at all, but rather by its co-founder Andrew Ng, through his spin-off company, Deeplearning.ai.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

”) It was certainly the outcome that investors were hoping for Edmodo , which raised $25 million in 2012, boasting that it had 15 million users. Remember Edmodo? Edmodo was one of the early stars of the most recent resurgence in ed-tech startup founding and funding (circa 2008 onward, that is).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. Um, they do.) It’s that their parents are opting them out of exposure to these technologies.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

77 million users accounts stolen from Edmodo. More data collection will improve course design. More data collection will improve student learning and student outcomes. ” It will enable “personalization.” Start Holding Weekly Data Conferences." million students. I call b t.) Predicting.

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