Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Via The New York Times : “ Stanford History Event Was ‘ Too White and Too Male ,’ Organizer Admits.” Lots of news this week about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. Apple is holding an education-themed press event next week and The Verge tells readers “What to expect from Apple’s education event.”

Education 46

Education Robotics OER MOOC 46

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 4, 2023

Pew Research recently reported that about half of Americans regularly get their news from social media. That’s newspapers, evening news, and anything considered ‘mainstream media’ They prefer blogs, Twitter, and Facebook. So why do students turn to it for news?

Edmodo 309

Edmodo Common Core Digital Citizenship Video 309

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 30, 2015

Please forward this post to friends and colleagues and then encourage them to join us for this live event. Share our FB event w/your classroom + school network [link] Join #StuTech2015 on Jan. Share that you’ll be attending on Facebook at [link] and be sure to tweet using #StuTech2015.' The current complete schedule is below.

Conference 28

Conference Technology Adobe EdTech 28

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.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The GEC features thought leaders from the world of education and beyond, is completely free to attend, and all events take place online in webinar format. Thanks to the GEC Sponsors Social Media Amazing List of Currently Scheduled Sessions! Become a Partner Organization! We're Still Taking Proposals!

Conference 44

Conference Education Case Study Blackboard 44

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

I read recently that 70% of millennials get their news from Facebook. Isn’t Facebook a place to share personal information, stay in touch with friends and families, post pictures of weddings and birthdays? So why do students turn to it for news? Once again: Who gets news from Twitter? How Stuff Works.

Facebook 150

Facebook Social Media Edmodo Twitter 150

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. Wonder Workshop (robotics) – $41 million.

Trends 56

Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The sixth annual Global Education Conference , our free four-day online event bringing together educators and innovators from around the world, runs today Monday, November 16 through Thursday, November 19, 2015 (November 20th in some time zones). And there's still time to join this illustrious group and help support our event!

Conference 0

Conference Education Advocacy STEM 0

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

STEAM-based learning emphasizes both hands-on and digital experiences with engineering, art, game design, prototyping in makerspaces, authoring, robotics, and much more. By gradually expanding services and their professional brand on social media, they eventually grow a business that they run either part or full-time.

Gamification 114

Gamification How To Education Game-Based Learning 114

Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Another surprise was a turn in public perception of giant technology companies, especially Facebook and Google, as well as Twitter and Amazon. They argue that putatively equitable technologies actually reinstate social inequalities. We shouldn’t be surprised to see educational technology become increasingly political.

Trends 115

Trends LMS Social Media Education 115

Hack Education

APRIL 21, 2017

Via the Udacity blog : “ Udacity Launches Mobile Developer Education with Facebook at F8.” ” I didn’t pay close attention to Facebook ’s developer event this week. Via MIT Technology Review : “Facebook’s Sci-Fi Plan for Typing with Your Mind and Hearing with Your Skin.”

Education 45

Education MOOC Facebook Report 45

Hack Education

JUNE 1, 2018

” The Outline highlights the “Summer’s hottest dystopian crossover event is MoviePass and student loan debt ”: Refinance your debt with Laurel Road, and get a free annual MoviePass membership! ” Via Wired : “With Venues, Oculus and Facebook Push Social VR Into New Territory.” “Yet.”

Education 47

Education Kaplan Robotics Schoology 47

Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Edwards , who as the editor of Education Week since 1989 and president of its parent organization since 1997 led the transformation of a specialty newspaper into a force in web news, education research and events, and, most recently, video journalism, will step down at the end of July.”

Education 49

Education Coursera Microsoft Company 49

Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

White supremacist Richard Spencer will speak at the University of Florida , which says it will spend $500,000 on security for the event. “‘Eton for all’: will robot teachers mean everyone gets an elite education? Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Campus Technology with the latest robot predictions (a.k.a.

Education 49

Education Robotics Company MOOC 49

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The only other media attending the event would be a national crew from ABC.” The stories out of Facebook just keep getting worse. I mean, I’m just glad that no one from Facebook is involved in education, ed-tech, ed reform, or education journalism. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

Education 58

Education MOOC Social Media E-rate 58

Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The State Department is proposing to ask additional questions of visa applicants regarding their social media usage.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via The New York Times : “ Facebook Says Cambridge Analytica Harvested Data of Up to 87 Million Users.”

Education 45

Education MOOC E-rate Facebook 45

Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

It’s just a bunch of video-taped lectures for the (offline) “ Startup School ” event that the startup incubator program runs at Stanford (which is really just a series of short talks by entrepreneurs and founders). Via Gizmodo : “ Facebook Will Add 3,000 More People to Watch Murders and Suicides.”

Kaplan 46

Kaplan Education Blackboard MOOC 46

Hack Education

MAY 11, 2018

First Lady Melania Trump launched her “Be Best” campaign this week, encouraging people to be nicer on social media. Google had a big event this week – you know, the one where tech journalists do the company’s marketing work for them by writing up every announcement made on stage in its own, separate article.

Education 42

Education Company Robotics Report 42

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.

Education 48

Education Facebook Company Robotics 48

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. Of course, teachers have utilized social media sites for years to launch various side-hustles — speaking gigs and “ brand ambassadorships ”, for example — as well as to facilitate their main hustle — you know, teaching.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

I’ve also written a separate article listing some of the various events that happened in the for-profit college industry this year – closures, lawsuits, sales, and the like. ” That’s because the stories told this year to keep us hustling and to keep up imagining a certain kind of future are almost all about robots.

Robotics 59

Robotics MOOC Training Industry 59

Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

“ New York City libraries have announced they plan to forgive the late fees of all children aged 17 and under in a one-time amnesty event,” The AP reports. ” More on the event via Inside Higher Ed. Two different opinions on WIkipedia : “How Social Media Endangers Knowledge” by Hossein Derakhshan in Wired.

Education 48

Education Coursera MOOC Report 48

Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

” Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Reward Students for Referrals and Facebook Endorsements.” ” Via The Washington Post : “‘In the event of a nuclear attack’: U-Hawaii ’s curious email to students and staff.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” asks The Atlantic.

MOOC 43

MOOC Education Kaplan Company 43

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

” Via the BBC : “ Facebook Reports BBC to Police Over Investigation Into Child Sex Images.” ” More on this story and concerns about how Facebook moderates content via Techcrunch. ” New Nanodegrees from Udacity : Digital Marketing and Robotics. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

Education 46

Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46

Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

Department of State has received emergency approval from the Office of Management and Budget to collect additional information regarding certain visa applicants ’ travel and employment histories, familial connections, and social media usage in accordance with a notice it posted in the Federal Register May 4.

Education 48

Education MOOC Report Company 48

Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Inside Higher Ed covers Billy Willson’s viral “I’m quitting school” rant on Facebook, in which he claimed he was leaving Kansas State University with a 4.0 “Could robots be marking your homework ?” DE is distance education. tl;dr initial headlines and pronouncements might have been wrong.

Education 40

Education Coursera lynda.com LMS 40

Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

Apple had a big press event this week. Inside Higher Ed on Facebook ’s plans to partner with community colleges to teach digital literacy. Inside Higher Ed on Facebook ’s plans to partner with community colleges to teach digital literacy. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Hi schools.

Khan Academy 45

Khan Academy Education Facebook E-rate 45

Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

Meanwhile on Campus… The New York Times on “How the Parkland Students Got So Good at Social Media ” – a really important corrective, I’d argue, to that “digital native” silliness. ” Conferences and Events. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. GradTouch has raised ~$1.3

Education 47

Education Kaplan Coursera MOOC 47

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

But I wanted to consider too why the stories we repeatedly tell about education and education technology were so fanciful – stories about impending disruptions and revolutions and robot teachers and brain zappers and so on. million people had attended the event. But blaming social media is too easy and too simplistic.

Technology 71

Technology Education Facebook Social Media 71

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Related, from the Social Media Collective : “Spike in Online Gig Work : Flash in the Pan or Future of Employment?” Representative Pete Sessions, a Texas Republican, are slated to join Career Education Colleges and Universities at an event Friday. Data-mining a Facebook group. Lee Partners.

Education 40

Education Company Data Pearson 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2016

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “How Sessions Tried to Block Gay University Event.” Testing, Testing… It’s time once again for one of my least favorite events in education journalism: the release of PISA scores. Via The Daily Dot : “University Wi-Fi named racist slur during white nationalist event.”

Education 40

Education Report E-rate Company 40