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Best Professional Development Tools for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The web is teeming with social and professional platforms where you can network with other professionals in your field most important of these platforms are Twitter, LinkedIn, and Researchgate. This post originally appeared in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning ( www.educatorstechnology.com ).

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Cultural hegemony and disruption

Learning with 'e's

Whilst Gramsci used hegemony to refer specifically to the inculcation of political doctrine into society, I believe the theory can be applied in a much wider sense, and that we are witnessing a challenge to the dominant societal discourses through disruptive technology. They are traditionally the owners of surveillance technology.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The Huffington Post filed Twitter’s response to Ivanka Trump ’s announcement under “comedy.” ” Via Education Week : “In hurricanes ’ aftermath, technology eases return to school.” ” Campus Technology with the latest robot predictions (a.k.a. 2 Post at Ed. Trillion in 2018.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Remind me again, all you fans of VR in education, how this technology is going to promote empathy? ” That’d be Glenn Reynolds , @instapundit , who also briefly had his Twitter account suspended. Facebook’s entry into the education technology market will be pure and good. ” asks NPR.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Edsurge covers Clever ’s new product “Clever Goals,” which takes the data that the company gleans about student usage of technology and sells it back to schools. National) Education Politics. Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via George Veletsianos : “A large-scale study of Twitter Use in MOOCs.” Via Campus Technology : “ Harvard Tailoring the MOOC Experience With Adaptive Learning.” Elsevier has acquired Plum Analytics. " No s**t. million total.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. The pilot, by the way, is at University College London’s Centre for Blockchain Technologies. I was wondering when #metoo would come to education technology. National) Education Politics. The State of the Union is a right mess.