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3 things you should know about Edupunk

Learning with 'e's

Should we use centralised services and endure all the constraints that accompany them, or should we instead use our own patchwork collection of tools, loosely aggregated social media and handheld personal devices that give us freedom, but at a price? Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

I don't want to come off today as making broad sweeping statements about all of education everywhere when I'm very much talking about the education system in the US and the education technology industry in the US. " There is a growing digital proctoring industry that offers schools way to monitor students during online test-taking.

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A Flipped Classroom Approach: Tips from 3 Bett Speakers

ViewSonic Education

We’ve come a long way since Victorian England and are currently in the midst of the fourth digital industrial revolution. These materials can be easily distributed via a School’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) or through more open sources like YouTube and Vimeo channels. We are teaching digital citizens in 2018.

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'Education Technology's Completely Over'

Hack Education

And I hope that by retelling the story of Prince and the Internet, by telling a counter-narrative to one that’s simply “Prince hated it,” we can think about what’s wrong with how ed-tech – as an industry and as an institutional practice – treats those doing creative and scholarly work. You needn’t.

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The Top Ed-Tech Trends (Aren't 'Tech')

Hack Education

I use “Silicon Valley” in my work as a shorthand to describe the contemporary high tech industry – its tech and just as importantly, its ideology. But I extend the phrase “Silicon Valley” to all of the high tech industry, not just the chip makers. The number of investments fell by 11%. (It’s

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