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How to hire technology leaders, not followers

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Blended learning, and its subset flipped learning, are trends that are not just growing but becoming the norm. The E arly adopters move with the change. Prospective staff could be “rated” on a scale of 1 to 5 for each new category, with results plotted on a radar graph. Teachers need to be up to date with trends and research.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Education Week : “ E-Rate , Other Universal-Service Funds to Be Transferred to U.S. Khan Academy, for example, had $27.9 Via The New York Times : “A Few Telling Freshman Trends.” .” Via Education Week : “ ESSA Point Man Jason Botel to Leave Education Dept. Post, Sources Say.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” “Modern E-Rate Puts Telephones On Hold in K–12,” Education Week reports , noting that schools are struggling to pay for phone service (still totally necessary) as well as expanded broadband. .” ” These colleges no longer offer federal loans because of students’ high default rates.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” “ 2016 E-Rate Trends.” ” Time to buy more TV ads, Khan Academy and Coursera! .” ” Time to buy more TV ads, Khan Academy and Coursera! ” Via the Pew Research Center : “The state of privacy in post-Snowden America.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2010. The key word in that headline isn’t “digital”; it’s “force.”

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The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

In previous years, when I’ve written about this topic, I’ve saved “The Business of Ed-tech” for one of the last articles in my “ Top Ed-Tech Trends" series. The College Board also boasted about its partnership with Khan Academy, which would make SAT test prep materials freely available online.

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Education's Online Futures

Hack Education

There was all that ink spilled circa 2010 that Khan Academy and “ flipped learning ” were going to “ change the rules of education ,” replacing in-class instruction with online videos watched as homework. Discovering the Most Tenacious Learners,” as Edsurge pronounced this year. broadband privacy rules.”

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