Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

The LINK Lab is a hub international scholars exploring the digitization of knowledge and learning and how this process impacts education. Siemens also serves on the advisory board of learning analytics company Civitas Learning and is a mentor to startups in Intel’s Education Accelerator.

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Hack Education

JUNE 14, 2016

As part of the course, students are engaging in a “Great Ed-Tech Debate,” arguing one side or another of a variety of topics: that technology enhances learning, that technology is a force for equity, that social media is ruining childhood, and so on. When we say “ed-tech,” we often mean “computers.”

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 22, 2024

With so much content available online through social media and other channels, are people really reading digital magazines? For example, what would be the charge for the magazine? For example, it could be about your CSR initiatives, or about innovation and sustainability. billion by 2028.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” ” The latest report from the Pew Research Center : “ The Science People See on Social Media.” Why the Diverse Charter School Model Is Being Gentrified.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Platforms provide the substructure for the “gig economy” and the “sharing economy”; they’re the economic engine of social media; they’re the architecture of the “attention economy” and the inspiration for claims about the “end of ownership.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 7, 2017

He released an interactive CD-ROM in 1994, for example, a game that played a lot like another popular video game at the time, Myst. Students often find themselves uploading their content – their creative work – into the learning management system (the VLE).

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Graphite Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

As one example, try explaining how and why your credit score is determined. If people are doing adolescence right, they are making mistakes, asking questions, and breaking things, all in the name of growth and learning. In the context of, for example, an eighth-grade classroom, it all makes sense.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

And yet it is naive and even misleading to pretend as though education technology exists separately from either of those – from the politics of DC, the politics of local school boards, or the politics of Silicon Valley, for example. Social Media, Campus Activism, and Free Speech. Learning to Code. Beyond the MOOC.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

” (This is a good example of how ed-tech advocacy-posing-as-journalism operates – you get funded by an organization and then you get to “break the news” about that organization. ” The survey was conducted by learning analytics company Civitas Learning.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

” “Frustrated with how colleges have handled their claims of sexual abuse , more students are turning to social media to publicize their cases,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” The story above is just one recent example of technology entrepreneurs making claims that do not “add up.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

I delete all my old social media now on a regular and ongoing basis. There were other high profile incidents as well: the refusal, for example, to give visas to the all-girls robotics team from Afghanistan. ” I’d embed the tweet here in this article, but I deleted it.

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

Testing, Testing… “ Common Core testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on social media,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. “ Key Tensions in the Field of Learning Analytics ” by Bodong Chen.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

The social media platform had raised $2.5 ” Not Tressie McMillan Cottom, for example. Via teachonline.ca : “Directory of Vendors of Online Learning Products and Services.” Via EdTech Magazine : “How Learning Analytics Can Help Inform K–12 Decisions.” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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