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Millennials: The Straw That Will Stir Higher Education’s Next Disruption

EdNews Daily

Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. Beyond coursework, students swim in a flux of data, buffeted by phone calls, text messages, Facebook updates, Twitter tweets, news crawls, and other sources.

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Tag your questions #eduquestion or post them on our Facebook page or Google+ community. Conference strands include Teaching with Technology, Student Devices, Online Learning, Subject Specific Ed Tech, Creative Ed Tech, Web 2.0 & Social Software, and Administrative Support. Check out her list here. This is very exciting research!

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

I kept thinking how much the physical setup of the classrooms resembled a Silicon Valley workspace — or is it that Amazon, Google and Facebook have tried to replicate grammar-school life? apps and software, with some classes much more tech-reliant than others. We use Google all the time. There are no exceptions to this.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Tag your questions #eduquestion or post them on our Facebook page or Google+ community. Conference strands include Teaching with Technology, Student Devices, Online Learning, Subject Specific Ed Tech, Creative Ed Tech, Web 2.0 & Social Software, and Administrative Support. Designing Baseball Uniforms in the School Library.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Fines Google $5.1 That is, the announcement from RealNetworks that they’re offering facial recognition software to schools for free. ” Just grand that Facebook is running a bunch of media literacy and digital training courses for community colleges. The Google Empire. Via The New York Times : “ E.U.

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Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” ” The new software is supposed to get students ready for “the Salesforce economy,” whatever the hell that means. Google had a big media to-do this week. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? Speaking of imperialism, The Guardian covers a report from Global Media which describes Facebook’s Free Basics program as “ digital colonialism.” ” “Facebook is not introducing people to open internet where you can learn, create and build things.