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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare. There are, after all, only so many times you can put “mobile” on your list of “what’s on the horizon” before folks begin to suspect your insights might not be that… insightful. Manufacturing Trends.

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WHAT’S NEW

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PEARSON & LITTLEBITS ( www.pearson.com.) & ( littlebits.cc/education education ) Pearson, has partnered with littleBits, bringing hands-on invention-based model of learning and teaching into its 3-8 science curriculum, Elevate Science, in a new program called,”Pearson littleBits STEM Invention Toolbox.”

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Previously, she was a Technology Integrator at Sacred Heart teaching robotics and programming to 5th through 7th grades and supporting the faculty''s technology and integration needs. What positive social change needs to take place to fully realize the goal of a connected and ''flattened'' environment that supports personalized learning?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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ISTE has hired Joseph South as its Chief Learning Officer. “​ Pearson to Lay Off 3,000 More Employees,” says Edsurge. Via the Coursera blog : “What’s Next in Employee Learning: Virtual Reality.” Larry Cuban on personalized learning : part 1 and part 2. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Testing, Testing… Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “British Officials, Pearson Probe Effort to Leak Test Content.” Via Techcrunch : “ Lilwil ’s personalized learning engine teaches teachers how to teach.” ” Via Chalkbeat : “They rejected multi-state Common Core exams. and James L.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.” Pearson PARCC "Spies" on Students. But the “spying” has continued.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Good thing IBM Watson isn’t making any claims about “personalized learning” or partnering with beloved shows like Sesame Street. “The RISE Package for R: Reducing Time Through the OER Continuous Improvement Cycle” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.