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Machine Teaching, Machine Learning, and the History of the Future of Public Education

Hack Education

These are my prepared remarks, delivered on a panel titled “Outsourcing the Classroom to Ed Tech & Machine-learning: Why Parents & Teachers Should Resist” at the Network for Public Education conference in Indianapolis. The iPad was going to change everything. MOOCs were going to change everything.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) Arguably, one of the best candidates is the learning management system.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. Half of those, the firm said, would be iPads. Apple sold just 50 million iPads. The quotation is from 2012.

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The Greatest EdTech Generation Ever – LIVE Blog of Justin Reich’s Keynote

EdTechTeacher

No matter what you may choose to learn, you can do so via YouTube and other media. Increasingly, the perspective that young people, and people of all ages, bring is the notion that all learners exist within a learning commons. This perspective is shaping formal learning as well. Be the Node!

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30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom

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This post is actually intended to supplement the “Cycle of Learning Innovation” model that will be publishing tomorrow (7.7.2015), which means this is less about analysis and context and more about the examples. Adaptive learning platforms and learning algorithms. Robotics in the classroom. by Terry Heick.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “The MOOC is not dead, but maybe it should be,” says Rolin Moe. My kids gonna learn today ?? ” Via the Google blog : “Rolling Study Halls: turning bus time into learning time.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The two were visiting a rural school in Idaho that has a 1-to–1 iPad program. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via Techcrunch : “ Amazon opens its internal machine learning courses to all for free.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. It could only observe.