Educator Innovator

JULY 3, 2018

Much of the current rhetoric about technology and education relates to devices and software programs—what types schools should purchase, how much money districts should spend on them, how they should be integrated into classroom learning, and what return on investment they should produce.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Spend April 10th online with search specialists, instructors, and librarians discussing the importance of search and learning how to incorporate search skills into your curriculum at our first Search Matters Summit. The impact of MOOCs depends on their ability to assess learning. Other new conference dates to add to your calendar.

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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “A Sector in Flux: How For-Profit Higher Ed Has Shifted.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try To Be An OPM : Conversion of for-profits and MOOCs.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

” (Probably worth checking out Sara Goldrick-Rab’s comments on Twitter about this one.). ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Big HR news about Coursera in the HR section below. Here’s the headline from Inside Higher Ed : “For-Credit MOOC: Best of Both Worlds at MIT ?”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The Huffington Post filed Twitter’s response to Ivanka Trump ’s announcement under “comedy.” “Free College” “How to Pay for Free Community College ,” according to Inside Higher Ed. ” Via Alternet : “How Hackers Held an Entire School District Hostage.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

” But of course, that’s not quite true: my first introduction to Papert's work was actually a decade earlier, when I sat at an Apple II and taught a Turtle how to move about the screen. “Hardly Anyone Wants to Take a Liberal Arts MOOC,” Edsurge informed its readers in February. Only “1.86 and Facebook Inc.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

There was a regularly updated Facebook page, a Twitter account, as well as a LinkedIn profile for its supposed president. In May, Buzzfeed reported that the ACICS had held a training session at its annual conference in which it explained to for-profit universities how to avoid scrutiny and lawsuits from states’ attorneys general.

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Hack Education

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.” ” Via the AP : “ Iowa City schools to stop using padded seclusion rooms.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

This free event runs all week and is open to anyone to attend: spread the word with Twitter hashtag # globaled13. Quick Notes: We''re also always looking for volunteer session moderators--join us here. General information is posted here. A step-by-step guide to getting started is also available here. .

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Educator Innovator

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

For educators, the problem we must focus on as we seek to change schools – regardless of how Internet access is working or not working – is the despicable predictability of how students will achieve or access opportunity based on race, class, gender, language, sexual orientation and social factors. We settled on #techquity.

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