Perry Hewitt

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

#IStandWithAhmed generated well over half a million tweets, serious invitations to the White House and to Facebook , along with the inevitable funny responses. Web platform solutions for website or mobile apps are notoriously hard to propagate in a world where people gravitate toward the bespoke.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 4, 2016

Study Tool Raises $500,000 in Funding: Memorang , a web and mobile study tool, has raised $500,000 in seed funding from angel investors including Michael Kane, an early investor in SoFi (Social Finance, a loan refinancing company), and Tom Palecek, founding partner at Summit Trail Advisors.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

“Whether you’re running a Zoom meeting, hosting a YouTube or Facebook Live show, or creating an instructional video, the HuddleCamHD Pro is the ideal all-in-one audio and video hardware solution. Versatility & Mobility. There is no better entry-point electronic PTZ webcam on the market, period.”.

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Educational Technology Guy

MAY 9, 2016

Finalist schools will be chosen and their videos will receive online votes of support through the Fab School Labs Facebook page to assist with the final selection process. Please see the press release below, and check out the Fab School Labs page , for more information on the contest.

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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

To achieve this, though, we’ll need to educate people very differently ( Robot-Proof: How Colleges Can Keep People Relevant in the Workplace ). Learners are consuming real time and constant information, media, and news via Google, Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, and forms of social media via their mobile devices.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 13, 2015

Stay tuned for all events at [link] , which also has Facebook event links for each activity. Diane Ravitch''s blog Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator "Screentime - It''s Quality, Not Quantity" Lego Mindstorms: A History of Educational Robots Educating Children or Training Circus Animals? Register for free today at [link].

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 18, 2018

So many headlines focus on automation, robots, artificial intelligence, and the looming loss of jobs. adults have some type of mobile device. Pew research suggests just 24 percent of US adults with less than a high-school diploma have home broadband access, while further Pew research indicates 95 percent of U.S. The Future is Now.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 13, 2014

Tag your questions #eduquestion or post them on our Facebook page or Google+ community. Is your library mobile friendly? Sunday, May 18th at 8pm I Have a Question EdTechWeekly , Weekly attempt to crowdsource answers to education questions from our community of communities. Monday, May 19th at 8pm TL News Night LIVE!

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This is a blatant form of cheating using robotic means! Outwrite works on different online platforms such as Google Docs, Gmail, Outlook, Facebook, LinkedIn, Wordpress, among others. This post originally appeared in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning ( www.educatorstechnology.com ).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare. There are, after all, only so many times you can put “mobile” on your list of “what’s on the horizon” before folks begin to suspect your insights might not be that… insightful. Whatever “it” is.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Director of Academics Robotics Unplugged: Introduction to Engineering - Melda N Yildiz Sharing International Exchange Through Mutlimedia - Elaine Huang, Alumna Storytelling goes global - Ms Silvana Carnicero Strategies to Increase Student Transfer of Knowledge to Real-World Contexts & Facilitate 21st Century Skills - Tamara Galoyan, Ph.D.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

It’s a reaction, I’d say, to the current obsession with artificial intelligence and a response to all the stories we were told this year about robots on the cusp of replacing, out-“thinking,” and out-working us. Facebook won’t say if it plans to use brain activity for advertising.

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TeacherCast

AUGUST 28, 2018

Over the next few weeks, my kids and I spent quality time building this gigantic robot piece by piece, or should I say, Lion by Lion. As a child of the 80's, I knew I just had to bring it home … ya know … for my son. (#wink). Construction is Cool … But What About Coding? LEGO Education Website. Lesson Plans.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Our social media page is HERE with links to Facebook , Google+ , Twitter , and more. Help Promote the Conference: We can still use your help to share the conference with your colleagues, associates, friends, family (!), and the world. Publicity resources, along with images you can use, are HERE.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Replacement limbs may not strictly be accepted as a merging of technology and humanity, unless they are robotic limbs. He suggests that we already have expanded memories (search engines of the web) and remote ears and eyes (mobile phones and webcams). He sees Facebook and other social networks undermining and devaluing friendships.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Tagged on: August 26, 2017 The Secret to a Good Robot Teacher | The New York Times → Why is educational technology such a disappointment? Google now controls nearly ninety per cent of search advertising, Facebook almost eighty per cent of mobile social traffic, and Amazon about seventy-five per cent of e-book sales.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Tagged on: August 26, 2017 The Secret to a Good Robot Teacher | The New York Times → Why is educational technology such a disappointment? Google now controls nearly ninety per cent of search advertising, Facebook almost eighty per cent of mobile social traffic, and Amazon about seventy-five per cent of e-book sales.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Program a Robot. So not only is AI becoming mainstream, but we have some pretty cool robots available for our classrooms. Robotics offer a lot of learning opportunities for students at every level, and it will help them understand the basics of coding all the way to advanced programming and robotics. Click here to join.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 17, 2018

Via The Washington Post : “Going mobile: The government’s most crucial financial aid form.” ” One huge problem with the new mobile version of the FAFSA : you can’t use the IRS Data Retrieval Tool on it. And that makes the mobile app pretty useless, IMHO. .” The Business of Financial Aid.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Via Education Week : “ Facebook Giving Virtual-Reality Kits to Every Arkansas High School.” ” “ Skidos offers an SDK to turn mobile games into ‘learning apps’,” says Techcrunch , really underscoring how Silicon Valley believes anything can be easily turned into “ed-tech.”

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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.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 16, 2015

And OK, FaceTime and Facebook and the rest now allow conversations about homework assignments as well as the inevitable social. Students with mobile devices flooding the streets and the world, conquering life. John Holt, Ivan Illich, Seymour Papert, Howard Rheingold. I feel your pain.

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” ” Facebook gets in the “ literacy ” business. “Facebook’s News Literacy Advice Is Harmful to News Literacy,” says Mike Caulfield.

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Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

“Education recoded: policy mobilities in the international ‘ learning to code ’ agenda” by Ben Williamson, Annika Bergviken Rensfeldt, Catarina Player-Koro, and Neil Selwyn. “What Happened to Facebook ’s Grand Plan to Wire the World?” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

The Wall Street Journal predicts “The End of Typing: The Next Billion Mobile Users Will Rely on Video and Voice.” ” “The Culture Wars Have Come to Silicon Valley,” The New York Times pronounces , with a look at internal tussles between Facebook board members Peter Thiel and Reed Hastings.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. The company provides “interactive lessons and content on a mobile platform to low-skilled workers.” ” Via The New York Times : “ Facebook ’s Push for Facial Recognition Prompts Privacy Alarms.” Content warning: contains hype about “ mindsets.”

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Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

“An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg : our child died at** Sandy Hook** – why let Facebook lies hurt us even more?” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Via Education Week : “ Pearson Studies Seek to Shine Light on Cyber Charter Student Mobility.” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education

MAY 24, 2017

Facebook and Twitter grew in popularity as social networks emerged to profoundly reconfigure information and media. Education technology is not new; it has not appeared “all of a sudden”; and it is not a rupture. It is inextricably linked to history, to histories of education and to histories of technology.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2017

“ Should Children Form Emotional Bonds With Robots? Facebook is coming for your children. Via The New York Times : “New Facebook App for Children Ignites Debate Among Families.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “ Robot Learning Improves Student Engagement ,” the Communications of the ACM claims.

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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. There was a regularly updated Facebook page, a Twitter account, as well as a LinkedIn profile for its supposed president. Personalized Learning" Software (and Facebook and Summit Public Schools).

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Mark Zuckerberg on “Building Global Community” via Facebook. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via Quartz : “The robot that takes your job should pay taxes , says Bill Gates.” Via the MIT Technology Review : “What Happens When Robots Become Role Models.” Galore has raised $1.65

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

University of Nebraska political science professor Ari Kohen “liked” a photo on Facebook depicting a defaced campaign sign for Congressman Jeff Fortenberry. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Edsurge : “ Robots Won’t Replace Instructors , 2 Penn State Educators Argue.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2017

” Apparently the FAFSA will soon be available on mobile devices. ” According to Edsurge , Knewton is now a courseware company and not a “robot tutor in the sky.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” There’s some robot news in the privacy section below. I don’t know.

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Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

Inside Higher Ed on Facebook ’s plans to partner with community colleges to teach digital literacy. Here’s how the Des Moines Register wrote about Des Moines Area Community College ’s involvement: “Facebook chooses Iowa college for rare digital marketing education partnership.” ” Hi schools. .”

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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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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2018

If it's not, what do you think is necessary to reinvigorate that social and economic mobility, and having higher ed be a pathway to the middle class again? (3) And technology is replacing many jobs, and we're going to see that even more over the next 10 years, as robots and artificial intelligence make inroads on the whole middle class.

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Education Week : “Thousands of Android Mobile Apps Improperly Track Children, Study Says.” ” Via Techcrunch : “ Login With Facebook data hijacked by JavaScript trackers.” .” “Make it rain” here is a reference to an analytics app.

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