Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2017

One in five students was absent more than present – missing more than 90 days of school. ” Disclosure: the Mooch now follows me on Twitter. ” The speaker was Lucian Wintrich , whose presentation was titled “It’s Okay to Be White.” ” Really. .” ” Really. .”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The call for presentations has been extended until October 31, and the event is highly inclusive so that we have real global participation. Last year we had presentations from 62 countries. iOS 5 contains a number of new features, including better notifications, wireless syncing, and Twitter integration.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

I wrote about his education portfolio – it includes Clever, Knewton, and AltSchool – but I’ll revisit this topic when I tackle ed-tech and surveillance “personalization” in a subsequent article in this series.). “Facebook is well-positioned for a Trump presidency,” I joked in September.

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Technology Education Facebook Company 40