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Current Trends in Education

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Key points: Current education trends point to personalization and accessibility Keeping up with current trends in education is essential for educators Learn more about K-12 Tech Innovation News In the dynamic landscape of K-12 education, several trends are shaping the way students learn and educators teach.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). And then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s venture philanthropy firm and its commitment to fund “personalized learning.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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. “High school students will be allowed to carry mace in the 2016–2017 school year after the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education agreed to remove prohibitive language and amend its policy,” the Salisbury Post reports. Via Techcrunch : “ Lilwil ’s personalized learning engine teaches teachers how to teach.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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And certainly the expectation of many ed-tech products (and increasingly school policy) is that parents will do just this — participate in the incessant monitoring of student data. There was a regularly updated Facebook page, a Twitter account, as well as a LinkedIn profile for its supposed president. 3D Printing. Course Signals.

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The Weaponization of Education Data

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A hacked school Twitter account in Florida. Some technology companies have joined some of these lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Phishing emails posing as the University of California student health plan. million scammed from MacEwan University. Keyloggers at the University of Iowa.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“ Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : ”Why Twitter Is Calling Abigail Fisher ’ Becky With the Bad Grades ’: A Brief Explainer.” “Can Venture Capital Put Personalized Learning Within Reach of All Students?” From this article, I learned that Sal Khan earns more than $540,000 a year.