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Sony Vows to Bring “Blockchain” Tech to Education. Will It Take Hold in K-12?

Marketplace K-12

Sony Global Education , a company affiliated with the Japanese electronics corporation, defines blockchain as a decentralized network technology in which the same data are recorded and maintained on multiple nodes–computers connected to a network–that are geographically isolated. Other uncertainties abound.

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100+ Ways to Use a Chromebook in the Classroom – SULS033

Shake Up Learning

So students will use the images in Haiku Deck to draw connections and deepen their understanding of their vocabulary words. Chromebook Idea Spark #3: Building Proportion Dolls Using G Suite, Khan Academy and Screencastify. Overview : “Teachers can struggle with teaching ratio and proportion concepts to students.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Department of Education missed a deadline to delay state authorization rules are incorrect, a department spokeswoman said Thursday,” Inside Higher Ed reports. There’s more Department of Education news – relating to student loans in particular – in “the business of financial aid” section below.

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Four Student Data Privacy Issues Adults Should Be Aware Of

MindShift

In some cases, large amounts of student work, and literally millions of tiny interactions, are collected and stored in the cloud. Or all the interactions a student has with a Khan Academy math program. The major federal student privacy law on the books, FERPA , doesn’t have much to say about this avalanche of data.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The Horizon Report. 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. But as the ed-tech sector is never willing to let a bad idea die, the report will live on. The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Elsewhere in North Carolina , Dana Goldstein reports for The NYT on “What Budget Cuts Mean for Third Graders in a Rural School.” Via The Hechinger Report (and related to a lot of the goings-on in the local education news section above): “ How one test kept New York City high schools segregated.”