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OPINION: How schools can find common ground in an era of education wars

The Hechinger Report

Systems change is not easy, though, and in order to transform decades of habits and practices, school leaders need strategies that encourage all stakeholders to play an active role. We believe there are lessons to be learned from our strategies.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

Summative and formative assessments, powered by technology, became much more commonplace and almost every school district developed a strategy around using data to measure school, teacher and student performance. ASU Global Freshman Academy, Coursera and edX have taken the StraighterLine model—and pushed it even further.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Recode : “ Coursera has ousted several senior executives along with many rank-and-file staffers.” ” Via The New York Times : “Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t).” “Why the Best Personalized Learning Programs Start Way Before High School,” according to Edsurge.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Education Dive : “ Coursera ’s Tom Willerer talks personalization, access.” ” Willerer was previously at Netflix (just to give you an idea of the meaning of “personalization” in the headline). .” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ OpenStax Launches Learning Platform.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called badges a “game-changing strategy.”. Although sometimes talked about as a “movement,” Mozilla’s Open Badges Project was really more of a technical specification, one that was transferred from Mozilla to IMS Global Learning Consortium in 2017. Reader, they were not.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Techcrunch : “ Pearson is adding LittleBits kits to its STEM curriculum.” Coursera co-founder “ Andrew Ng officially launches his $175M AI Fund,” says Techcrunch. ” Via Campus Technology : “ Personalized Text Messages Boost STEM Student Persistence in Community College Study.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Coursera ’s new monthly subscriptions could monetize procrastination,” says Techcrunch. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Yale Graduate Students’ ‘ Microunit ’ Unionization Strategy Could Have Nationwide Implications.” ” The testing company in question: ETS.