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#EDEN15 BCN

Learning with 'e's

Now in its 24th year, the event grows from strength to strength, with two annual events every year, an individual membership of over 1200 worldwide practitioners in all sectors of education and training, and a well-oiled mechanism in support.

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Tonight - A True History of the MOOC

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Dave’s keynotes in the last couple of years have centred around how coming to know is a messy, imprecise process at once intensely individual and necessarily embedded in a community - Rhizomatic Learning. Till August 2012 I worked as a researcher at the National Research council of Canada on their Personal Learning environment Project.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

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?). Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites. I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

It was one of two social media messages – the other a Twitter photo of Tunsil smoking marijuana through a gas mark – that were posted during the NFL draft. ” Via Education Week : “ Teach For America Ends Pre-Training Pilot Focused on Cultural Competency.” From the HR Department. ” ( PDF ).

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Perhaps the district didn’t know what New York City learned when it audited its old data portal : it found that less than 3% of parents had ever logged in. There are a variety of reasons for this: language barriers, lack of Internet access, incompatible devices, lack of training. And everyone clicks and rages and snipes all over again.

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The Weaponization of Education Data

Hack Education

A hacked school Twitter account in Florida. ” It’s a process incredibly similar to what’s marketed in education as “learning analytics” – tracking the social media and digital activity of students to identify those who might be “at risk.” Biases based on the training data.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“ 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?” Learn-to-code startup Piper has raised $2.1 ” Hell no.