The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

Thirty years ago, Channel One offered schools nationwide $30,000 worth of audiovisual equipment at no cost in exchange for requiring students to view a daily current events program during class. Revelations about the privacy practices of Facebook only serve to underscore the stakes surrounding the capture and use of personal data.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I was inspired, I think, to select that topic because talk of “platforms” was incredibly popular in Silicon Valley – it had been for a while – as companies strove to become “the next Facebook.” Think Facebook. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Sessions are free to watch for five days, then become part of the Home Learning Summit library. This free event is for everyone interested in helping students to learn, because we're having what may be one of the most important conversations about learning in the history of the world. Libraries and Librarians ? Innovation ?

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. Might we also study whether learners with solid K12 library inquiry experience perform better than the student in the general SHEG sample ? and world history events. You can now find out. Plague Doctor.

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 18, 2018

I am not complaining, but it’s good to know how to follow along or catch up with the events on your own time during and after the fact. If you want to focus on AASL events, here’s the official schedule. Events like OCLC’s Community Engagement of the Future , as well as their Research Update will be live-streamed.

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How To Social Media Trends OER 41

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Meanwhile, as The New York Times reports : “ Facebook , Under Fire in Russia Inquiry, Posts 79% Rise in Profit.” Via Getting Smart : “ Digital Promise and Facebook Developing New Micro-Credentials Program.” ” Because the way to teach people about Facebook according to Facebook is always more Facebook.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. Siegler: “ The End of the Library.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

” Via Buzzfeed : “The Education Department Quietly Invited Anti-LGBT Groups To A Father’s Day Event.” ” Student workers at the University of Chicago’s library have voted to unionize. Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Facebook , an Online Learning Platform?” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ UVa Library’s Plan to Cut Stacks by Half Sparks Faculty Concerns.” Apple had a big press event this week. Inside Higher Ed on Facebook ’s plans to partner with community colleges to teach digital literacy. ” Hi schools.

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