Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

In recent years, Simon’s ideas have found new traction, thanks to new computing technologies that would have seemed alien in the ’60s. Mathematics lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology. The second is to improve strategies for how students take in that information and retain it. That’s known as the metacognitive realm.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Are any education technologies, for that matter? Andreessen’s definition does begin to get at some of the reasons why platforms have been so appealing to investors – ideologically as much as technologically. One might ask, I suppose, if LMSes are platforms. But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

” He continued – and I think this is so very revealing about the goals of much of this push for technological reform, “I should say that on the average we get about two percent efficiency out of schoolbooks as they are written today. And it might be the trying that we should focus on as much as the technology.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2017

OpenEd ), Armen Pischdotchian, (an academic technology mentor at IBM Watson), Kathy Benemann (CEO of EruditeAI ), and Kirill Kireyev (founder of instaGrok and technology head at TextGenome and GYANT ). And there’s greater availability of the technology—things that you can literally use out the box. from Shivon Zillis.

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Graphite Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Within educational technology, tech companies can acquire data via multiple routes. A second model includes sites that get their initial data from teacher or school signup, but then as part of the service offered in the site, they acquire student information. The site is primarily teacher focused.

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MindShift

JUNE 7, 2016

Department of Education has increasingly encouraged and funded states to collect and analyze information about students: grades, state test scores, attendance, behavior, lateness, graduation rates and school climate measures like surveys of student engagement. Software also collects information on students all by itself.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Much of the funding for this educational experiment came from philanthropies set up by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, who made their money from technology and have argued that introducing more of it in classrooms can transform the education system. I think people still see the need, but they don’t know the right way to get there.”.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Huge thanks to the San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science , the founding sponsor of the conference. Audrey is a writer for the NPR education technology blog MindShift , for the data section of O’Reilly Radar , and for the Edutopia blog. For more information on the initiative, visit Learnwithportals.com.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

For years education companies have tried to apply technologies to better understand students and tailor their learning experiences, or support instructors who can intervene when human help is needed. Speakers quickly contextualized the technology with the shift in how widely available data is today. “We Or does it?) said Grant.

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MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

They gave each student access to technology that helps teachers customize their lessons. And it would not be possible, Trout said, without small-group instruction and the assistance of classroom technology that helps her deliver a custom-fit lesson for each student. That’s where technology comes in.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

This is the second part of my much-abbreviated look at the stories that were told about education technology in 2018 – and in this case, the people who funded the storytellers. I assumed that they looked to see if the company could do what it promised – financially, technologically. The technology did not work.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

They gave each student access to technology that helps teachers customize their lessons. And it would not be possible, Trout said, without small-group instruction and the assistance of classroom technology that helps her deliver a custom-fit lesson for each student. That’s where technology comes in.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Several months ago, I started to jot down ideas about what I'd cover in my annual review of what's happened over the course of the past 12 months in the field / industry /promotion of education technology. But we can't do so if we keep cultivating an ed-tech (information) ecosystem that fosters inaccuracies and inequalities.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

From the Knewton blog : “ Introducing Knewton Product Updates for Fall 2017.” ” Via Campus Technology : “BYU Researchers Aim to Stop Robots from Eating Tables with Wikipedia.” Privacy, Surveillance, and Information Security. ” The startup is called Learning Beautiful. .

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” There’s more information about lawsuits against Betsy DeVos in the courts section below. ” “ VR is the US Olympic ski team ’s secret weapon,” says MIT Technology Review. National) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Facebook, like many digital technology companies, promises that in exchange for collecting your personal data – your name, your age, your gender, your photos, metadata on your photos, your location, your preferences, your browsing and clicking habits, your friends’ names – it will deliver “personalization.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Susan Crawrford argues “Why Universities Need ‘Public Interest Technology’ Courses.” million from Omidyar Technology Ventures and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. National) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

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. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)

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Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

Here are the education technology companies that have raised money from ISPs. What’s his evidence that technology has not eliminated jobs – other than this weird insistence that there is no such thing as neoliberalism in ed-tech ? Via Campus Technology : “6 VR Trends to Watch in Education.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Thiel’s lawyers have threatened other lawsuits against the media – some on behalf of Melania Trump , Trump’s current wife – and Donald Trump himself regularly threatens and files lawsuits against news organizations who report damaging information about him. He shapes technology products and politics alike.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Edsurge covers Clever ’s new product “Clever Goals,” which takes the data that the company gleans about student usage of technology and sells it back to schools. Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Although much of the focus of ed-tech involves what happens at school, it’s important to remember that the corporate and consumer markets for “learning technologies” are much larger. ” According to Edsurge , Knewton is now a courseware company and not a “robot tutor in the sky.” Loss In 2016.”

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

I was recently informed that my pointing out the relationships between politics, tech investors, and their investment portfolio constitutes an “ad hominem” attack. He’s a partner at Founders Fund, which has invested in Knewton, AltSchool, Uversity, ResearchGate, If You Can, Upstart, Declara, and Affirm.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2016

” More on the technology industry’s role in building a Muslim registry in the surveillance section below. Jose Ferreira is stepping down as the CEO of Knewton. .” “The registry, created after the attacks of Sept. Via The New York Times : “ Louisville Suspends Coordinator Who Received Wake Forest Game Plan.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Via Campus Technology : “Digital credentials company Credly is adopting the Credential Transparency Description Language (CTDL), a common markup language designed to improve discoverability of certifications, badges and other verified achievements. ” Inside Higher Ed on Knewton ’s “pivot.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

.” I mean, yes, I’m totally making up the framing of the “trends” angle here (in the hopes, I confess, to defanging all those ridiculous clickbait articles that just list a bunch of shiny new consumer technology products and predict that they’re poised to “revolutionize school”).

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