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9 Insights For Educators We Learned On A Zoom Call — With Zoom

Edsurge

Zoom is hiring folks with years of experience in education technology. Before that, she founded education advisory company Quantum Thinking, was an entrepreneur-in-residence and senior fellow at the Gates Foundation, and worked for Kaplan, Pearson, Ellucian, Blackboard and Oracle. “I Here’s what we learned. I like early market.

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?Another Major Coding Bootcamp, Iron Yard, Announces Closure

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Dev Bootcamp, a Kaplan-owned coding bootcamp pioneer, announced last week that it will be closing its doors in December. Social media users and bloggers have already responded noting what appears to be the start of a trend. We will finish out summer classes completely, including career support,” the announcement reads.

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How to Blend Learning with Play for a Kid-friendly Summer

Ask a Tech Teacher

Technology. So much of learning today is about technology. When faced with the technology required for test-taking and applications, students can be confused and discouraged when they shouldn’t be — because it’s not difficult. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 25 years. Hunger Games.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. ”) How accurate are her observations?

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October 24 - Ed Tech News, Our Weekly Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Teachers and the Future of Education" (the importance of teacher voice in education discussions, "Hack Your Education" (thinking about self-directed learning--Audrey''s in this proposal), and "Technology, Pedagogy, and the Silver Bullet" (addressing the myopia of some ed tech business ventures).

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Thursday's Microschool Summit - Stories of Starting Schools | Schedule Announced

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Participants are encouraged to use #microschools and #microschoolsummit on their social media posts about the event. Completing a doctorate in Instructional Technology, she went on to earn a Superintendent’s Letter of Eligibility in Pennsylvania. He started a microschool around his kitchen table in January 2018.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Wait, so Purdue is gonna run Kaplan and a nuclear lab? ” Former Kaplan exec Justin Serrano has been hired as the president of Schoology. ” “The Theranos Story and Education Technology” by John Warner.