Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In the tech industry, it's already seen as a notorious element in targeted advertising , surveillance and propaganda (for example in recent elections). AI will help to hyper-personalize this omni-choice functionality so that students can focus more on their actual learning and less on the mechanics of their learning."

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

It also is completely unaware of the potential role a caring teacher can have to foster the critical consciousness of a person, beyond transmitting knowledge. For example, learning analytics may look at how many times someone has watched a video and for how long. Some Critical Questions. This post is getting long.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2018

There is also more time for students to reflect on learning and for teachers to reflect on lessons. Reflection is essential for students to take ownership of their learning, and for teachers to build a personalized learning experience in our schools. Has SSO helped with security issues?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

To believe that would require, of course, that we overlook the role that the major technology platforms – Google, Facebook, and Amazon – play in education. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). Education’s Proto-Platforms. Pearson does not have a platform.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

We [made] probably the biggest single investment [in the Pearson System of Courses , which] completely rethinks the way that numeracy and literacy are taught in the classroom. You have to work with the gray—that is the day-to-day reality of the classroom. If it doesn’t, it won’t, and it won’t deserve to.

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

You hear a lot of these sorts of proclamations when it comes to “personalized learning,” which is (increasingly) frequently invoked in direct opposition to some imagined or invented version of learning in the present or in the past.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

As we wrapped up 2020, we thought for sure that 2021 might bring us a reprieve from pandemic learning. Virtual and hybrid learning continued into the spring, but then classrooms welcomed back students for full-time in-person learning in the fall. Well, it did–but it also didn’t.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Of course, the future of education is always tied to its past, to the history of education. The networks of canals, for example, were built along rivers. It knows the courses you’ve taken and the grades you’ve earned. Think Wikileaks’ role in the Presidential election, for example. It knows your major.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

” The scheme involved Ed4Mil , “an online correspondence course provider,” and a former dean of Caldwell University. ” (This is a good example of how ed-tech advocacy-posing-as-journalism operates – you get funded by an organization and then you get to “break the news” about that organization.

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Education Khan Academy Blackboard Report 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools. Um, they do.)

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

“Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot ,” says The Wall Street Journal in a story about “Jill Watson” (of course it’s a female name), an automated teaching assistant at Georgia Tech. Via Techcrunch : “ Lilwil ’s personalized learning engine teaches teachers how to teach.”

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

More data collection will improve course design. More data collection will improve student learning and student outcomes. ” It will enable “personalization.” ” “The Higher Ed Learning Revolution,” as NPR put it: Tracking Each Student’s Every Move.“

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

Bob Thorpe, is proposing a far-reaching law in Arizona, House Bill 2120, banning virtually every college event, activity or course which discusses social justice , skin privilege, or racial equality. “ The growth of online learning : How universities must adjust to the new norm” is sponsored content on Education Dive.

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MOOC Education Robotics Report 40

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

And of course current Undersecretary of Education, Ted Mitchell, is a former VC.) From the Coursera blog : “Coursera pilots a new course format.” ” More via I Programmer on Coursera ’s decision to remove old courses from its platform. .” Presidential Campaign Politics. weeks in 2015.”

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