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Lessons from Digital Learning Day

Educator Innovator

Digital Learning Day (DLD), held on February 5, immersed kids from coast to coast in activities like tinkering with robotics, penning blog posts, and painting digital canvases. In 2008, the high school graduation rate at Winterboro High School was 63 percent. What do we make of this 18th birthday of the E-Rate program?

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 19, 2017 Cyber attacks a serious, and under-reported, threat to Boulder Valley companies | Boulder Daily Camera → Specific to the Boulder, CO-area, but useful overview of cybersecurity trends. It isn’t even good direct instruction." " Readers respond.with gusto. That's a lot of computers.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Private School With Low Vaccination Rates.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via The New York Times : “Meet Zora, the Robot Caregiver.” ” Sara Goldrick-Rab shared her thoughts on Twitter. Colleges Weigh the Breadth of Their Tobacco Bans.” Here’s why it shouldn’t have.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” That’d be Glenn Reynolds , @instapundit , who also briefly had his Twitter account suspended. Via Buzzfeed : “After Reporting Abuse , Many Twitter Users Hear Silence Or Worse.” ” “ 2016 E-Rate Trends.” “What’s Causing The Increased Enrollment At HBCUs ?”

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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. And everyone clicks and rages and snipes all over again.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“New report calls out NCAA for saying that black athletes graduate at higher rates than other black students, when that’s not true at the top conferences,” says Inside Higher Ed. Perhaps it should go in the “robots” section. “ Will these four technology trends change education in India?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Incidentally, I saw lots of harassment online this week from these predatory journal folks , but as Bill Fitzgerald notes, Twitter still does little to address abuse on its platform.). Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The e-book subscription service has raised $21.45 .” The librarian in question is Jeffrey Beall.