Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. And then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s venture philanthropy firm and its commitment to fund “personalized learning.” I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. They’re amazing.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

I want to really focus on seeing them as human beings with feelings and needs and emotions and not just little robots who are here to download information. So one of the things that were fascinating is early in the pandemic, I did get a lot of messages on Twitter. People are like, “Oh my gosh, Catlin, I’m online.

Blended Learning 98

Blended Learning Learning Assessment Strategy 98

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Tagged on: March 19, 2017 Textbooks could be history as schools switch to free online learning | Philly.com → Garnet Valley is a district in the vanguard of a nationwide movement to ditch traditional textbooks for open-source educational resources on the web. That's a lot of computers.

EdTech 170

EdTech Chromebook Laptops iPad 170

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Our Twitter hashtag is #stemx13, and we have some resources for publicizing at [link]. See you online! Rivers, Executive Director Online Communities of Practice - Are They Worth it? MP3 and MP4 versions will be available as well as the full Blackboard Collaborate recordings, although they take some days to process.

STEM 47

STEM Maker Movement MOOC Common Core 47

Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

That is, major social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter increasingly made it difficult for ThinkUp to work with their APIs. ” Via the Hechinger Report : “Can a wall-climbing robot teach your kid to code?” Who owns your data – whether it’s social media or school-related?

Education 49

Education Coursera Microsoft Company 49

Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

Perhaps it should go in the “robots” section. “ Artificial Intelligence: Could emerging technologies ‘humanize’ teaching & learning? This is so important to consider, as Tufekci noted on Twitter, in light of Google’s domination of the K–12 computing market.). Upgrades and Downgrades.

Education 46

Education MOOC Company Report 46

Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

As CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski noted on Twitter Tuesday, Eck, who is now a special assistant to Secretary DeVos, tweeted last November that Hamill should ‘stick to playing Han Solo’s short little b—-’ after Hamill tweeted criticism of the Trump administration.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

Education 46

Education MOOC Company Report 46

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.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

Via The Next Web : “ Facebook is letting Groups create online learning courses – what could possibly go wrong?” Incidentally, I saw lots of harassment online this week from these predatory journal folks , but as Bill Fitzgerald notes, Twitter still does little to address abuse on its platform.).

Education 48

Education MOOC Report Company 48

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” Via The New York Times : “ Kremlin Cash Behind Billionaire’s Twitter and Facebook Investments.” ” Via The Guardian : “ Russia funded Facebook and Twitter investments through Kushner associate.” ” “Whatever happened to the promise of online learning ?”

Education 45

Education Facebook Company Report 45

Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

Edsurge on “Bridging the School-to-Business Gap: What Public Schools Can Learn From Industry.” Via NPR : “Students Compete In First-Ever International High School Robotics Competition.” ” The New York Times reports that “ Burundi Robotics Team Vanishes After U.S. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

Education 46

Education LMS Robotics E-rate 46

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via The New York Times : “ Udacity , an Online Learning Start-Up, Offers Tech Job Trials.” Via abc.net.au : “ Queensland children as young as four will learn coding and robotics as a compulsory part of their education from next year.”

Education 40

Education Company Data Pearson 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2016

.” Online Education and The Once and Future “MOOC” “ Deakin University in Australia will next year offer graduate degrees and certificate programs through FutureLearn , the online learning platform owned by the Open University in the U.K.,” ” Inside Higher Ed reports.

Education 40

Education Report E-rate Company 40