Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

I was a guest speaker in the MA in Elearning class at Cork Institute of Technology this morning. I don't want to come off today as making broad sweeping statements about all of education everywhere when I'm very much talking about the education system in the US and the education technology industry in the US.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 18, 2012

On Friday morning I attended a session facilitated by Dr. Gary Stager , a progressive educator whose work I have come to know over the past couple of years. Gary’s message is one that resonates with me and many other educators who frequent digital spaces. All around the world there are ideas that are put into action.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2019

Some are printouts of emails; others handwritten notes. They remind us of why we do our work, of the lives we touch. This week, we added an elegant piece to the collection: a plaque recognizing me and the whole EdSurge team for our “impact” in education. The wall next to the door in EdSurge’s Burlingame, Calif.,

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Edsurge

AUGUST 20, 2019

People have a tendency to treat technology and data as neutral, sterile and immune to mortal failings. This week for the podcast, we’re talking with someone who’s questioning the assumptions embedded in the technology and data we use in education, health care, law enforcement and beyond.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2017

Rather than spending most of my time time helping people become better online teachers, I have been figuring out how to meet two competing objectives: increase online course offerings and avoid adopting an online proctoring system. Some examples include learning management systems, lecture capture tools, and early online meeting systems.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 3, 2019

Summer may be a break from the daily work of the classroom, but any teacher knows it's not a "three-month holiday" by any means. Summertime can offer teachers much-deserved time to think and grow. If you're lucky, some of that might happen poolside. Not too much. The New Childhood.

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The Web20Classroom

AUGUST 3, 2015

When I was a Director of Instructional Technology I was deeply involved in the technology planning process from one end to the other. Typically the technology planning process can go wry in many ways: Lack of True Planning: Sometimes a rush to make things happen can cause the entire planning process to come off the rails.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

For educators that may mean working with students in a face to face, elearning, or a blended environment. I promise you will find some great information coming your way this school year…So Sign Up Now and please pass this on with a retweet! – Mike Gorman ( [link] ). Some students will blossom more online than in a class of 25.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2020

I am lucky that these five are not just colleagues but dear friends, and the love and support they have shown me and the solidarity that all of you show today give me great hope that we can build better educational practices and that we aren't stuck with snake oil or fascism. He couldn't fathom why someone would "zoom bomb" a class.).

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. Moving away from the pandemic, educators still grapple with learning loss and academic disparities and inequities. This begs the question: What’s next for education? What are the projections for edtech?

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Hack Education

APRIL 24, 2020

Although some communities have listed journalists as "essential workers," no one claims that status for the keynote speaker. What does one say to anyone who works in education — at any institution anywhere. Here are the transcript and slides of the talk I gave today at CUNY. Well, not at CUNY. My bank account thanks you.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2017

It’s a golden age of education podcasts. Teachers, professors, education innovators, and tech skeptics have switched on their microphones to share their insights and analysis—and you’ll find plenty of lively characters and fresh voices via your earbuds. That includes crashing a frat party—you’ll want to check out that episode).

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2018

It’s one reason why writer and activist Cory Doctorow thinks schools and educators should rethink their approach to surveillance and censorship. at Worldcon, a science fiction convention, to get his take on everything from surveillance in K-12 schools to open access publishing in higher education.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The bystander effect3 is a scary aspect of the human experience that we must all work against. This is a paralyzing condition that actively works against positive change in our schools. They fumble about lampooning the human experience on their way to epic saga-like success. A key character in these stories is the hero, or champion.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Tuesday, November 18th, is day two of the fifth annual Global Education Conference. It''s a ton of fun, you''ll be doing some good, and you''ll have the undying gratitude of the conference organizers! The list of Tuesday''s sessions, in US-Eastern Standard Time, is below. We do still need more volunteers to help moderate sessions!

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Decolonize my syllabus , decolonize my curriculum, decolonize my classroom—for some time now, the term “decolonization” has been the buzzword around campus, as students and certain faculty demand inclusion and diversity in education. The power hierarchies of what is education and who gets to have it have been eroded.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” The company has raised some $77.5 ” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. Remember Edmodo?

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Both the wider internet and the narrower education space are filled with companies and organizations that provide value-added services around openly licensed software and content. Open Up Resources provides teacher training, professional development, and related for-fee, value-added services around openly licensed K-12 content.

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Reading By Example

MARCH 26, 2017

Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology: The Digital Revolution and Schooling in America by Allan Collins and Richard Halverson (Teachers College, 2009). An essential resource for thinking about and discussing technology in education. Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire (Bloomsbury, 1970, 2000).

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2021

Decolonize my syllabus , decolonize my curriculum, decolonize my classroom—for some time now, the term “decolonization” has been the buzzword around campus, as students and certain faculty demand inclusion and diversity in education. The power hierarchies of what is education and who gets to have it have been eroded.

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The Principal of Change

JULY 5, 2015

This is one of those posts where I am trying to learn through my writing, not necessarily share my learning, so please excuse me if it seems to ramble on… I read this post from Doug Pete regarding some of the things that we are still saying in 2015. So, why is “So and So” at the conference then? I mean, really?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Instead of reserving them for high-stakes assessments like final exams, some professors now use these tools for routine work like weekly quizzes. have signed petitions calling on their colleges to stop using automated proctoring tools, meaning that the technology has become arguably the most controversial tool of the pandemic at colleges.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

This is the transcript of the talk I gave today at the Digital Pedagogy Lab at the University of Prince Edward Island. Let me make sure I’m clear here – I’m interested in the “push,” in the stories we tell about machines more so than the technology underpinning the machines themselves.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2023

Within these group designations, why does it matter to understand the unique experiences of people of each individual race and ethnicity? Excerpts from our interviews with Asian American K-12 teachers shed light on some of these nuances. I've also had a teacher's aide come up to me and ask me about teacher's aide stuff.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

I spend most of my time doing fairly tactical thinking and working focused on moving OER adoption forward in the US higher education space. My end goal is to improve student learning, and that can be done in extraordinarily powerful ways when teachers and students are able to leverage the unique affordances of open educational resources.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 19, 2015

What exactly this looks like on a daily basis in your classroom depends on the reality of your classroom: Available technology, WiFi access and bandwidth, grade level, content area, your comfort level with games, and so on. Some Prefaces. Note 1: Some of the links are to videos of the game, while others are to app download links.

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Gradelink

JULY 24, 2019

Today we are highlighting some “old school” teaching practices to swap out for some fresh alternatives you can roll out in the new school year. Teaching by learning styles It appears on its surface to be sound pedagogy. Summer is here. Are you looking to do a little “spring cleaning” of your curriculum? We’ve got you covered!

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Digital Promise

MARCH 29, 2016

Amy Jenkins is the Chief Operating Officer at Education Elements. Education Elements is a corporate partner of Digital Promise. Risk #2: Curricular and Instructional Misalignment: Personalized learning is about shifting pedagogy and thinking about curriculum and instruction differently. Buy-in and a “north star” is crucial.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 25, 2016

Amy Jenkins is the Chief Operating Officer at Education Elements. Education Elements is a corporate partner of Digital Promise. Risk #2: Curricular and Instructional Misalignment: Personalized learning is about shifting pedagogy and thinking about curriculum and instruction differently. leave, the knowledge is still embedded.

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RafranzDavis.com

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Some wanted a list of speeches while the majority just wanted me to turn that 5 minute ignite into a 60 minute keynote because in their words, “they needed that message in their space”. There was also the reality that perhaps my message might have had some impact on my colleagues in their respective districts. Hello…schools!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Global Collaboration Week is a series of free online education events taking place during the week of September 23 - 27, 2019. Students, teachers, and organizations will get online to celebrate global collaboration as back-to-school season begins in the northern hemisphere. A current listing of events you can join is below.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

Last year Bob Reiser invited me to contribute a chapter to the fourth edition of Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology , to be published by Pearson. The Evolving Economics of Educational Materials and Open Educational Resources: Toward Closer Alignment with the Core Values of Education. Pearson agreed.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

CU Boulder has started a movement to improve the quality of science education around the country, not only on campuses but in K-12 classrooms. CU Boulder has started a movement to improve the quality of science education around the country, not only on campuses but in K-12 classrooms. “Squat!

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Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

The Chronicle adopted a modified version of the format during a session at the South by Southwest Edu conference in March, with a panel of experts weighing in on five new products or ideas to fix pressing problems in higher education. Freund: When I sold my previous company, I had some time at my hands for the first time really in my life.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

In many cases, there seems to be a tendency to water down expectations when it comes to integrating technology. During a recent presentation on digital pedagogy for deeper learning I asked attendees to discuss then share out on TodaysMeet how they were effectively integrating technology in their classroom, school, or district.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2020

It's really the least I can do to help teachers and students through another tough term. Many undergraduates dreaded the class, some procrastinating until they were juniors or seniors in taking it — something that defeated the point, in so many ways, of helping students become better writers of college essays. Confront the student.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Oh yes, I’m sure you can come up with some rousing successes and some triumphant moments that made you thrilled about the 2010s and that give you hope for “the future of education.”

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