The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 25, 2014

Tania Rashid, Global Education Program Administrator What School Leadership Should Look Like for the Future School Year - Mrs Fabiana Casella “We are emotional beings in a social setting:” How the use of symbols, ritual, ceremony, and stories to build meaning, are the keys to positive school culture and climate. -

Common Core 71

Common Core Conference Blackboard Digital Citizenship 71

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Now professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. Trump’s education platform promises to “make post-secondary options more affordable and accessible through technology enriched delivery models.” Via Tony Bates : “A survey of distance education in Brazil.” Very unfair!

Education 54

Education Common Core Company Facebook 54

MindShift

JANUARY 18, 2018

This gives them experience with a process, known as competency-based learning, that a growing number of primary and secondary schools where they’ll eventually teach are beginning to adopt. Fewer than half of teachers said they were “very satisfied” with their jobs, a survey found , and 29 percent said they were likely to quit.

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Competency Based Learning Training System Report 39

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2017

This summer, John Villasenor, a professor of electrical engineering at UCLA, received funding from the Koch Foundation to survey students about their thoughts on free speech. They’re interested in specific outcomes, specific ideas, specific stories. Social Media and Weaponized Data. Dark Money and Academic Freedom.

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Technology Education Social Media Groups 58

Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

” The University of Northern New Jersey had a website – one with a.edu domain, to boot – as well as several active social media profiles. What are promises that – legally – post-secondary institutions can or must make? So I thought maybe this is the way it works.” What is the implied promise?

Technology 40

Technology Education Secondary Pearson 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Of course, teachers have utilized social media sites for years to launch various side-hustles — speaking gigs and “ brand ambassadorships ”, for example — as well as to facilitate their main hustle — you know, teaching. The incident, she added, had also made her aware that “Pearson is monitoring all social media during PARCC testing.”

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

As a set of policies, accountability was instantiated in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, reauthorized as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2002, and reinforced by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015. Under surveillance when they use social media. Under surveillance by police.

Data 40

Data Technology Education Software 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 4, 2014

Spread the word about World Read Aloud Day on social media to help us grow the movement. Survey: Games and gender-related attitudes. Secondary math teacher, Kyle Pearce, shares his most recent article on developing deeper thinking about mathematics among teen learners. Join the movement. Read Aloud. Change the World.

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Conference Education Learning Google 50

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2017

Lower-income students in both countries often attend much worse primary and secondary schools than wealthier ones, with less support and fewer mentors to encourage them, and so either don’t even try to go on to higher educations, or are unprepared for them. We’re beginning to see that in the U.K. and the U.S.,” Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee.

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Policies Report Accessibility Study 52