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To Teach Digital Citizenship Effectively, Educators Say It’s Time to Unblock Social Media

Edsurge

This year, on September 27, 2017, the American Association of School Librarians made a point to encourage their members to raise awareness about “overly restrictive blocking of legitimate, educational websites and academically useful social networking tools in schools and school libraries.”. We must keep learning first. Dereck McCoy.

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K-12 Dealmaking: Barnes & Noble Ed. Acquires LoudCloud; Volley Labs Raises $2.3 Million

Marketplace K-12

million, including drawing funds from Zuckerberg Education Ventures, one of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s investment vehicles. New York-based LightSail provides each student with individualized libraries and reading lists that change based on student-assessment results.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

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. Arguably, one of the best candidates is the learning management system. .”

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Different Definitions of Personalized Learning Conflict, Cause Confusion

MindShift

It’s called personalized learning: What if each student had something like a private tutor, and more power over what and how they learned? It found that schools using some form of personalized learning were, on average, performing better ( there were some wrinkles we’ll talk about later on).

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3 LMS adoptions that go way beyond the basics

eSchool News

The district chose itslearning because it enables the meta-tagging of learning objectives within the district’s libraries and the creation of assessment data that tells teachers whether a student has gained proficiency (or not). This, in turn, helps teachers provide a very personalized learning experience, she added.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” (So instead of “testing” we’ll have ubiquitous, non-stop surveillance / assessment via “personalized learning.” Via The New York Times : “‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ ” Winning.). Go, School Sports Team! ” Labor and Management. .”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). Siegler: “ The End of the Library.”

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