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4 K-12 Ed Tech Trends to Watch in 2018

EdTech Magazine

4 K-12 Ed Tech Trends to Watch in 2018. From learning analytics tools providing students with instant feedback on their work to virtual reality facilitating field trips to faraway lands to 3D printers filling makerspaces, the classroom looks quite a bit different than it did just five years ago. meghan.bogardu….

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Techcrunch : “This tortoise shows kids that robot abuse is bad.” ” “ Robot abuse ”?! Via Bryan Alexander : “ Robots , buyouts, and spinoffs: four short stories for the future of education and technology.” million total.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Strayer is “bucking the trend,” says Inside Higher Ed. ” Via Techcrunch : “Comparing Apple , Google and Microsoft ’s education plays.” ” From the press release : “ Microsoft Education and Open Up Resources announce partnership to deliver top rated math curriculum.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via McClatchy DC : “Forced to watch child porn for their job, Microsoft employees developed PTSD, they say.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” edX is offering an online master’s degree with Georgia Tech : an OMS (online master’s in science) in Analytics. ” “ A.I. .”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. As we move forward with new technologies in learning analytics, how and who will be evaluating the claims that people put forward?”. Course Signals. But the “spying” has continued.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“Can robotics teach problem solving to students?” “Learning technology once reserved for special needs students is now in everyone’s hands. To continue a trend that I monitored last year , it’ll be worth watching who becomes a power-player in the business of ed-tech procurement.