EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Leading schools understand that technology and student services go hand-in-hand, as mobile devices are now ubiquitous (a study by Pearson Education indicates that 9 out of 10 college students own a smartphone). Students can use any device to schedule an appointment for these services at a time that is convenient for them.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The smorgasbord of hardware and software at the show floor caters to a wide range of university IT needs, from security and bandwidth to proctoring and instruction. How might a sociology class analyze human interactions and behaviors on social media?). hulking gathering of higher-ed technology staff, faculty and companies.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2016

While student data is comprised of grades, attendance and transcripts, it can also include data such as login details, device data, location information and social media interaction on sites such as Twitter and Facebook. The Pearson incident raises important questions about privacy versus marketing and service strategies.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. Pearson is Not a Platform. Pearson does not have a platform.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2019

And social media feeds on our worst instincts when it comes to self-esteem. Frontline Seeks a New Frontman Frontline Education, which offers a slew of administrative and human resources software for K-12 districts, is seeking a new CEO. Pearson is launching its own. A majority of hands went up.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 4, 2020

Participants are encouraged to use #library2020 and #smallruralindependent on their social media posts leading up to and during the event. TechSoup is a San Francisco headquartered high-tech nonprofit whose mission is to tech up charities and public libraries worldwide by providing software, hardware, and the knowledge to use them.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2020

Participants are encouraged to use #library2020 and #smallruralindependent on their social media posts leading up to and during the event. 12:00 - 1:00 pm US-PDT ( click for your own time zone ) OPENING KEYNOTE: Jim Lynch and Kate Laughlin (co-moderators), with Jennifer Pearson, Melanie S. Toledo, and Dianne Connery.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 16, 2020

Participants are encouraged to use #library2020 and #smallruralindependent on their social media posts leading up to and during the event. 12:00 - 1:00 pm US-PDT ( click for your own time zone ) OPENING KEYNOTE: Jim Lynch and Kate Laughlin (co-moderators), with Jennifer Pearson, Melanie S. Toledo, and Dianne Connery.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 19, 2020

Participants are encouraged to use #library2020 and #smallruralindependent on their social media posts leading up to and during the event. TechSoup is a San Francisco headquartered high-tech nonprofit whose mission is to tech up charities and public libraries worldwide by providing software, hardware, and the knowledge to use them.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Pearson, for one.) Or one could look at ed-tech companies that laid off staff: the coding bootcamp Galvanize , the analytics company Civitas Learning , the learning management system Schoology , MOOC provider Coursera , the education giant Pearson , for example. ” Instead, it said it would offer some diagnostic tools online.

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User Generated Education

MARCH 24, 2019

Social Media Alternative. SDGs in Action [Mobile application software]. Boston, MA: Pearson Education. Integration of information and Communication Technologies (ICT): You will create journal entries using either a blog platform or a Google Site. using the #SDG hashtag [link]. Sustainable Development Goals.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

Last year, the founder of Facebook pledged to donate $45 billion to social causes, one of them personalized learning. And various technology companies — from no-name startups to behemoths like Pearson — boast of new programs meant to facilitate this style of education. Eastwood, superintendent, Middletown City School District.

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MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

Last year, the founder of Facebook pledged to donate $45 billion to social causes, one of them personalized learning. And various technology companies — from no-name startups to behemoths like Pearson — boast of new programs meant to facilitate this style of education.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 26, 2023

In the digital age, this also means being proficient in using online tools for collaboration, such as cloud-based document sharing, video conferencing , and collaborative project management software. Ethically aware learners understand issues like digital citizenship , data privacy, and the responsible use of technology. 29;20(7):5312.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

That's what a decade of ed-tech social media and PR have wrought: hashtag gurus and fake news. Pearson sold its US K-12 curriculum business for $250 million. Pearson said it would shift its strategy and make all its textbooks “ digital first ” (which you just know is going to cost students more). Spoiler alert: nothing.

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

“Publishers Wiley , Cengage , Pearson and McGraw-Hill Education have won a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a seller of fake textbooks ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. School administration software-maker Connexeo has raised $110 million from Great Hill Partners. The reading software-maker has raised $3.2

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

of Mississippi Students Stage Sit-In Over Racist Social-Media Post.” “School officials have dropped most of the Tennessee middle school social studies standards involving Islam as part of newly proposed standards,” the AP reports. . ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ U.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Via The Independent : “13-year-old girl arrested after contacting clown on social media and asking him to kill her teacher.” Pearson has issued a report on students’ attitudes toward digital course materials. ” And his partner Michael Feldstein : “ Student-Centered Educational Software.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 25, 2017

” Via The Nation : “ Trump’s Border Security May Search Your Social Media by ‘Tone’ ” Via Education Week : “Setback for DACA Supporters Places Program’s Fate Squarely in Trump’s Hands.” Estimates for previous years had been close to 100,000.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

And then there’s the advice from Pearson. ’” asked a venture capitalist in an op-ed published by Pearson. We also see it in many instances of adaptive-learning software. “Which major is the best?” ” the education giant asked in June. “Try marketing,” it suggested.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

Via The Guardian : “ Student Loans Company ‘spied on vulnerable students’ social media’ ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. The company: RIB Software SE. Via Edsurge : “ Pearson ’s Former Product Chief Reflects on the 4 Megatrends Shaping Global Education.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. 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.”

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

I wrote about social-emotional learning (algorithms) as a “trend to watch.” ” Elsewhere in algorithms… Via The New York Times : “Sent to Prison by a Software Program’s Secret Algorithms.” ” asks the Student Experience Manager of the Minerva Project in an article in Edsurge.

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

Turns out that Pearson, which once funded and acquired a lot of startups, isn’t in particularly good financial shape itself.). The software – students are all issued computing devices – track the clicks. Personalization, in all these manifestations, is a programmatic expression of individualism.

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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. If you want a job as a software developer in the technology industry, you’ll need a college degree. million ads for software-developer jobs nationwide.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

And “personalization” is the underlying promise of the new education software Facebook is itself building. According to Summit’s own reports on those piloting the Basecamp software, “student growth has been positive amongst the cohort schools thus far. average by 1.23 in math and 1.95 in reading, shown below.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Educators and students are compelled to use centrally purchased tools, data systems, and popular social media platforms. But not in the case of our software." Lots more to say about what happened here, but schools would do well to ensure that they remain in control of their social media accounts.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Educators and students are compelled to use centrally purchased tools, data systems, and popular social media platforms. But not in the case of our software." Lots more to say about what happened here, but schools would do well to ensure that they remain in control of their social media accounts.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 5, 2017

Pearson execs writing in Edsurge ask , “Can Edtech Support – and Even Save – Educational Research ?” “ Facebook is donating 500 virtual reality kits to Arkansas schools under a first-of-its-kind partnership between the social media giant and the state,” says the AP.

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MindShift

MARCH 24, 2015

Several efforts in Washington are converging on the sensitive question of how best to safeguard the information software programs are gathering on students. LA Johnson/NPR. By Anya Kamenetz, NPR. A proposed Student Digital Privacy and Parental Rights Act of 2015 is circulating in draft form. It has bipartisan sponsorship from Democratic Rep.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

” The “guru” is Brendan Kealey , formerly with Pearson. .” “ Instructure Announces a New CEO” – Michael Feldstein on Dan Goldsmith. Via Chalkbeat : “ Questar hires tech guru amid TNReady testing cleanup.” There’s more hiring/firing news in the for-profit higher ed section above.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

” Testing, Testing… Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “ Pearson is fighting to halt a decision by the state of Iowa to award a $31 million testing contract to the American Institutes for Research , arguing that the scoring of bids was riddled with ‘preferential treatment and bias.’”

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

Testing, Testing… “ Common Core testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on social media,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. ” (That giant: Pearson , of course.). The Common Core aligned reading software maker had raised $1.8 MOOCs for credit !

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Pearson filed a patent for badges. ” As venture capitalist Tom Vander Ark wrote in Education Week in July , “Chalk up the sector disruption to better software-as-a-service platforms, cheaper cloud-computing services and the rise of artificial intelligence across all HR functions.” Sony’s in the business.

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Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

From the Department of Education press release : “ Federal Commission on School Safety Meeting to Focus on the Effects of Entertainment , Media , Cyberbullying and Social Media on Violence and Student Safety.” ” Ben Williamson on Pearson : “Edu-business as usual – market-making in higher education.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 3, 2016

City native and rap superstar Fetty Wap released a music video last week for his latest single, ‘Wake Up,’ filmed at Eastside High School, according to social media posts by the rapper. ” “ Software for Stopping Freedom.” ” asks Pearson. “Who has ownership of campus analytics ?”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2016

” “A Gadsden City Schools principal has been suspended after coming under fire for a social media post he made following Trump ’s election,” the AP reports. Via CNBC : “ Pearson ’s marketing chief on the company’s virtual tutors and digital education transformation.”

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