Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Chromebook Idea Spark #3: Building Proportion Dolls Using G Suite, Khan Academy and Screencastify. Teachers can flip their classroom by using Google Forms to learn about ratios and proportions using Khan Academy videos and exercises. Khan Academy Kids. Learn more about Khan Academy Kids.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Pane is the lead author of one of the few empirical studies to date of this idea, published late last year. The commitment by the Facebook founder’s philanthropy is expected to run into the hundreds of millions of dollars per year. Two examples are McGraw Hill’s ALEKS and Khan Academy. Drew Lytle for NPR ).

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Contemporary storytelling is increasingly video-focused (just look at your Facebook feed), which leads to an obvious conclusion: kids should learn how to make their own films. The Art of Storytelling ,” a popular course offered by Khan Academy, describes the principles behind filmmaking as Film Grammar.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

It’s not really “free Internet,” of course – it’s Facebook as Internet. It’s always fascinating to look at ed-tech companies’ job postings – this one is from Khan Academy. This could transform how teaching works going forward, and Facebook will stand at the center of that change.

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Hack Education

JUNE 21, 2020

Mark Zuckerberg gave everyone at Facebook a copy of the Ernest Cline novel Ready Player One , for example, to get them excited about building technology for the future — a book that is really just a string of nostalgic references to Eighties white boy culture. To decolonize the curriculum, we must also decolonize the ed-tech imaginary.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Via The Chicago Tribune : “Almost all student loan fraud claims involve for-profit colleges , study finds.” ” Education Dive profiles Khan Academy’s Khan Lab School. (It It will be interesting to compare the success or failure of Khan Lab School with the failure of AltSchool.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

” “No College Kid Needs a Water Park to Study,” says James Koch in a NYT op-ed , criticizing schools spending money on lavish amenities. Via The New York Times : “ Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share.” I wonder what costs more: water parks or big-time college sports?

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Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

“Mark Zuckerberg just unveiled Facebook ’s new mission statement,” says The Verge. Via Buzzfeed : “ Violence On Facebook Live Is Worse Than You Thought.” ” Because, you know, Facebook’s mission is “community.” Study Shows Choices Are Slim.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

I’m going with the full NY Daily News headline here (because, you know, NY Daily News): “EXCLUSIVE: Shocking Facebook videos reveal brutal ‘ Fight Club ’ run by Bronx High School of Science students (WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT).” Khan Academy wants to start offering diplomas. What could go wrong?!

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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. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. The Intel Education Study App has now too been discontinued. And on and on and on.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

” Via the Khan Academy blog : “Teachers using Google Classroom can now quickly and easily import their class roster to Khan Academy.” Mark Zuckerberg on “Building Global Community” via Facebook. ” Wheee. ” Research from edbuild on property taxes and education funding.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Last year, Mark Zuckerberg made headlines when he announced he would donate 99% of his Facebook shares to his philanthropic LLC, the Chan Zuckerberg initiative. The College Board also boasted about its partnership with Khan Academy, which would make SAT test prep materials freely available online.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Via the Naples Daily News : “ East Naples teacher reassigned after Facebook post about immigrants.” ” Via Techcrunch : “ Pixar offers free online lessons in storytelling via Khan Academy.” ” Via Education Week : “ Online Charter Students in Ohio Perform Far Worse Than Peers, Study Finds.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

” Testing, Testing… Khan Academy announces “Free LSAT Prep for All.” Via NPR: “ To This Scholar, For-Profit Colleges Are ‘Lower Ed’ ” “ For-Profit Schools Rebound Under Trump,” according to the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 26, 2016

million to LACC – making studies for music majors tuition-free.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “the National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday ruled that instructors of religious studies may be excluded from part-time faculty unions at two Roman Catholic institutions.” in Afghanistan , Killing at Least 12 People.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

Via The Atlantic : “ DeVos Says There’s One Thing Her School-Safety Commission Won’t Be Studying: Guns.” “ Khan Academy launches free Official LSAT Prep ,” says the Khan Academy blog. Perhaps real harm to the field of consciousness studies , for one thing.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

There was all that ink spilled circa 2010 that Khan Academy and “ flipped learning ” were going to “ change the rules of education ,” replacing in-class instruction with online videos watched as homework. It has some 2500 “beta testers,” Edsurge reported in February.

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Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

.” That’s a school district in Wisconsin , and the learning software in question is the Summit Learning Platform , created by the Summit charter school chain and built by Facebook and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Via Edsurge : “ Facebook Expands Digital Training Initiative with College Partnerships in Chicago.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

” Bible study, I’m guessing. The folks at Getting Smart promote CS and SEL resources on Facebook for Education. Why would one ever suspect that Facebook is simply a terrible idea for schools or for democratic institutions?! Khan Academy is launching a new series on US history and civics.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

They struggle with facts about social studies. As Kristina Rizga wrote in Mother Jones this year , In 2011, all federal funding for civics and social studies was eliminated. Khan Academy will revolutionize education. And Americans don’t just struggle with facts about science. VR will revolutionize education.

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