The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 13, 2014

Tag your questions #eduquestion or post them on our Facebook page or Google+ community. Final Notes I''ve noticed a trend in some of the keynote talks for our virtual conferences: presenters who are not using slides at all. Monday, May 19th at 8pm TL News Night LIVE! Thanks for sharing, Jeff!

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JULY 10, 2019

Danusis and her teaching staff practice personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach, usually aided by laptops, that has become a reformist calling card in education. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. It looks unlike any school I ever attended. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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JUNE 1, 2018

The Hechinger Report on personalized learning : “The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed.” ” Via Wired : “With Venues, Oculus and Facebook Push Social VR Into New Territory.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Immigration and Education.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2017

.” Via ProPublica : “ Facebook (Still) Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude Users by Race.” ” “Personalization.” ” (Related, this assignment from Davidson College’s Mark Sample : “Hacking Facebook’s Ad Network for Justice.”). ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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DECEMBER 20, 2017

This isn’t simply a matter of “ robots are coming for your jobs.” The next day after the administration’s announcement, several tech giants – Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Salesforce, and other – said they would help fund the White House’s commitment to CS, to the tune of $300 million more.

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AUGUST 11, 2017

Larry Cuban on personalized learning : part 1 and part 2. ” “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. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. .” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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JULY 20, 2018

Bless this headline ( from The 74 ) ’s heart: “Educators & Experts Say Personalized Learning Is Not About Technology or Money but Leadership and Relationships.” ” Just grand that Facebook is running a bunch of media literacy and digital training courses for community colleges.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Via The New York Times : “Early Facebook and Google Employees Form Coalition to Fight What They Built.” ” “ Facebook ’s app for kids should freak parents out,” says MIT Technology Review. ” Well, this will be useful to “personalize learning,” won’t it. .”

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

“‘Eton for all’: will robot teachers mean everyone gets an elite education? “ Is Homework Compatible With Personalized Learning? “ No State Will Measure Social-Emotional Learning Under ESSA. .” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. This Week in Betteridge’s Law of Headlines.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2018

” Via The Verge : “A Facebook patent would use your family photos to target ads.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via The New York Times : “Meet Zora, the Robot Caregiver.” ” Via The Washington Post : “ Historians : What kids should be learning in school right now.”

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JUNE 23, 2017

” The charter school, which is closing it doors, is the Merit Preparatory Charter School , run by “personalized learning” charter chain Matchbook Learning. Via The 74 : “ Montessori Was the Original Personalized Learning. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” That is the Sophie B.

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APRIL 6, 2018

“A Response to Larry Berger’s ‘Confession’ on Personalized Learning ” by New Classrooms’ Joel Rose. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via The New York Times : “ Facebook Says Cambridge Analytica Harvested Data of Up to 87 Million Users.”

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

And the word “intelligence” is now used – oh so casually – to describe so-called “thinking machines”: algorithms, robots, AI. You don’t have to tell Facebook. Facebook knows.” The history of computing emerges from cryptography, tracking and cracking state secrets.

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MAY 5, 2017

Not ed-tech per se (unless you recognize that “personalized learning” is greyballing), but according to The New York Times , “ Uber Faces Federal Inquiry Over Use of Greyball Tool to Evade Authorities.” Via Gizmodo : “ Facebook Will Add 3,000 More People to Watch Murders and Suicides.”

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JUNE 29, 2018

“ Google , Facebook , Verizon , Comcast and AT&T each contributed $200,000 to a committee opposing the proposed ballot measure, and lobbyists had estimated that businesses would spend $100 million to campaign against it before the November election.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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APRIL 27, 2018

Via Chalkbeat : “Robotics is bringing Betsy DeVos to Detroit for the first time as education secretary.” Edsurge on Education Elements : “Million-Dollar Advice: The High Cost and Limited Return on Personalized Learning Consulting.” ” “Who Has More of Your Personal Data Than Facebook ?”

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JULY 28, 2017

I’m also curious how this news – again, I’m not sure two closures are really a “trend” – will affect student loan startups. Via The Daily Times : “Blount County Schools building new options to personalize learning.” “ Can personalized learning prevail?

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DECEMBER 18, 2016

Facebook’s Plans to “Personalize” Education. ” A personalized news feed, for example. And “personalization” is the underlying promise of the new education software Facebook is itself building. ” Data can be shared with any company that Facebook deems necessary.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019.

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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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DECEMBER 10, 2017

There were other high profile incidents as well: the refusal, for example, to give visas to the all-girls robotics team from Afghanistan. What did Facebook and Google’s algorithms show people in their news feeds and in their searches during the election? The actions of the administration should not come as a surprise.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” Via The New York Times : “ Kremlin Cash Behind Billionaire’s Twitter and Facebook Investments.” ” Via The Guardian : “ Russia funded Facebook and Twitter investments through Kushner associate.” Facebook breaks democracy and then turns around and sells you the fix. ” No.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Via The New York Times : “Turn Off Messenger Kids , Health Experts Plead to Facebook.” You can learn a lot about how entrepreneurs view education when they’re talking with their investors about the business. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. .” The company, which has raised some $107.4

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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. ” “ Personalized learning ” now includes working on a goat farm apparently.

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MARCH 9, 2018

” “One Standardized Tests Provider Looks to Gaming and Personalized Learning to Innovate Exams” – Edsurge on ETS. Via The Guardian : “ Facebook asks users: should we allow men to ask children for sexual images ?” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Memos from HR.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

” If you repeat these stories enough, it’s almost as if you can convince people to make it a trend. Via The Guardian : “ Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web : ‘The system is failing’ ” It is not entirely clear to me what, per this Edsurge op-ed , higher ed can learn from precision medicine.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

” Via The Seattle Times : “Shooter sent Facebook message to Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos before gunfire at UW protest, police say.” ” Via The New York Times : “ Facebook ’s Virtual Reality Business Gets a New Leader.” “Can robotics teach problem solving to students?”

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Facebook has decided to obey the law , announcing this week that “ discriminatory advertising has no place on Facebook.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “How Robots Will Save Liberal Education.” ” Listen. Think again.” Cinemood has raised $2.5

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