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VR, PBL, and OERs: Four High Hopes for Learning with Edtech in the New School Year

Edsurge

In 2014, I wrote about strategies for edtech success in the new school year , and in 2015, I wrote about edtech teaching trends for the new school year. I’ve seen the students in my own school get pretty excited about the robots they’ve built and programmed with code. A promising new iPad app is TES Teach. It is good!

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” “Stale Words and Hackneyed Ideas That Make Edtech Investors Cringe,” according to an investor in Edsurge. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via Edsurge : “Why a Robot-Filled Education Future May Not Be as Scary as You Think.” Among those cringeworthy ideas: the LMS. Where’s the outrage?”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids have iPads. At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. The iPad would solve that,” he said. Bill Gates wouldn’t let his kids have cellphones. Chatbot Instructors.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via KPCC : “ LAUSD may try again to give an iPad or computer to every student.” “Some Thoughts on OER ” by Mindwires Consulting’s Michael Feldstein. Via the Getting Smart blog : “Incubating EdTech: AT&T Announces 4th Aspire Accelerator Class.” ” More on the plan from Chalkbeat.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Edsurge : “ Office of Edtech Wants Help Making Sense of All Those Higher Ed Providers.” ” Via Apple Insider : “Jamf’s ‘innovation pod’ aims to offer iPad-based education to students in Haiti.” Edsurge on the business of OER. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “One Campus’s iPad Revolution Results in Education Evolution.” “Does Open Pedagogy require OER ?” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “How Robots Will Save Liberal Education.” ” LOL.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Unveils Free Online Tool for Rapid Evaluation of Edtech Products.” Via eCampus News : “ Barnes & Noble Education announces advanced OER courseware.” ” IBM released a Watson-powered education app for iPad. ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “When the Teaching Assistant Is a Robot.”