EmergingEdTech

APRIL 25, 2023

According to a study by Kahoot!, Businesses try to engage disenfranchised clients with unique corporate gifts (some of which may be a good way to grab the attention of higher-education students), social media is built on the back of grabbing attention of those who feel disconnected from the real world. Why the disconnect?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

But while standardized test scores might improve, a recent study found that in 63% of classrooms, students aren’t using technology to “solve problems, conduct research, or to work collaboratively.” 7th Grade Informational Writing: How is social media used in times of crisis?

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Monitoring software can track what students say and do online, sometimes even on students' privately owned devices or social media accounts. In some cases schools might even use tools like location tracking or facial recognition software. Subjects: Digital citizenship, journalism, social studies, ELA.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

MARCH 8, 2021

Here in this article, we discuss how digital learning platforms foster overall academic growth in students. Easy Access to Information: A digital learning platform allows access to a complete library of online resources. The software is structured to organize information in a way that makes it easily accessible to all users.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 14, 2016

Dallas-based LoudCloud’s platforms include a competency-based courseware platform, a learning-analytics platform and services, an eReading product, and a learning management system. Its software aims to capture and analyze key behavioral and performance metrics from students, allowing educators to monitor and improve student outcomes.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2016

And if I can find an opportunity that allows me to further my learning without sacrificing my summer vacation—or better yet, enhances it—you can bet I’m going to be the first to sign up. The nice thing about summer learning is choice. Personalized Learning Through Gaming. Designing for the 21st Century Classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

For them, there’s no substitute for in-person learning, “So, they’re not going to respond to anything or even log in,” Choudhury said. Phone calls to parents and messages on social media went largely unanswered. We’re going to lose students.”. The costs of kids missing instruction — even virtual teaching — are high.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Adobe Spark : This flexible design tool lets teachers and students design everything from a web page to a social media post. DIY.org : According to Higgin, this is the best community in youth media and learning products. Any kid can go and learn how to make things, share what they make, and earn badges.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

is a type of essentialist, behaviorist education based on the three Rs – receiving by listening to the teacher; responding by taking notes, studying text, and doing worksheets; and regurgitating by taking the same assessments as all other students in the cohort. Journal of Technology Studies, 2 6(2). Education 1.0: Education 1.0

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

There may be no better example of this in 2017 than “personalized learning.” “Personalized learning” has powerful advocates, least of which US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos who talks about it as part of her broader initiative to “rethink school.” Manufacturing Trends.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

CATCHON ( WWW.GETCATCHON.COM ) CatchOn is an administrative tool that provides a real-time digital inventory for district technology leaders on all apps, software, and website activity. Judges liked its ability to address any student learning deficiencies by connecting the dots between a student’s results and activities.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 25, 2017

They’re doing awesome things to drive inquiry based learning. This fun, visual tool lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners. Social media is something students are going to explore on their own, no matter what. Vicki: Excellent.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 11, 2018

That trend is called m-learning , otherwise known as Mobile Learning. Defined as a way to facilitate education through the use of devices like smartphones and tablets, m-learning is also a lot more than that. Remember that as of 2018, there are 3.196 billion people using various forms of social media on Earth.

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MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

They decided to “personalize” learning for every child, which means that they tailored lessons to each student’s needs, interests and learning pace. Last year, the founder of Facebook pledged to donate $45 billion to social causes, one of them personalized learning. What is personalized learning?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

They decided to “personalize” learning for every child, which means that they tailored lessons to each student’s needs, interests and learning pace. Related: Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work? What is personalized learning?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Those close at the fringes of the digital frontier are charting a different course with ICT rich classes and mLearning spaces whilst developing our personal learning networks. Judith Way will share examples of how students can use social media to respond creatively to texts.

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edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity. Frankie Jackson.

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eSchool News

APRIL 27, 2016

With the education sector increasingly adopting new technologies to enable a more personalized learning experience, this feature can bolster security and ease-of-use for students, teachers and staff. It offers word processing, storage, spreadsheets, social media and other capabilities together in an integrated, online system.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

JUNE 7, 2019

The Internet and the applications which allow for connection such as social media, text applications, voice over IP and video conferencing applications enable authentic connections to each other and others outside the school walls. Throw social media into the mix and the potential is huge. 10.18122/td/1379/boisestate.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Tagged on: March 18, 2017 Doubts about whether internet filters protect teenagers online | University of Oxford → A new study casts doubt on whether such technologies shield young teenagers after finding no link between homes with internet filters and the likelihood of the teenagers in those households being better protected.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 25, 2015

Teachers will use online gradebooks seamlessly to share information and projects with parents in a way that feels more like social media and less like grading. Computers will be in the hands of every student, replacing paper and pencil—essential learning tools with occasional opportunities for fun.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

Tuesday, April 22nd at 1pm CoSN - Smart Education Networks by Design , New advances in technology, including mobile devices, are making it possible for students to learn anytime, anywhere and to experience personalized learning. See the schedule in your local time zone and join the sessions here. Check out her list here.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 11, 2014

Learn more or register here and see my notes at the bottom of this post! Walden University researcher, Rose Arnell, is looking for survey participants : I am a doctoral student at Walden University and am conducting a study called, Teacher Beliefs on Self-Learning, Collaboration, and Participation in Virtual Communities of Practice.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2020

Instead of pouring cash into charter schools, accountability measures and tech-based software solutions, Dintersmith spends his time traveling to schools across the country. Few adults I interview feel they learned all that much from the large lecture courses they took in college as many of them featured fairly pedestrian exams.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

He then began his graduate studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993. Previously a middle school social studies teacher, first in Prince George’s County, Maryland, then in Amherst, Massachusetts, I left the Amherst school system to found North Star. in Social Studies from Brown University.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

From interactive digital resources to online learning platforms, technology has given educators innovative tools to create dynamic and inclusive learning environments. Students, in turn, have benefited from increased access to information, personalized learning experiences, and opportunities for collaboration.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2014

See graphics for social media and follow the event to join the campaign! Thursday, April 24th at 7am Learning Revolution Keynotes , Don''t miss Pat Farenga on "What is the role of the teacher when children learn on their own?" Social Media for the Art & Design Classroom. What an excellent idea!

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 18, 2018

“Personalized learning,” for example, is arguably thousands of years old, and we can date the idea of individualizing education by using machines back to the 1920s. I post my thoughts, my writing on my own websites , even though social media has really discouraged us from doing this. Skinner won; Papert lost.

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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.” In other Salesforce news, “The University of Texas System teams up with Salesforce to turn its learning platform into a learning relationship management system ,” Inside Higher Ed reports.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” Via Edsurge : “As Bootcamps Look for Novel Ways for Students to Pay For Their Studies, Many Try ‘ Deferred Tuition ’ ” Do note how student financial aid startups are still raising venture capital (and how now, I guess, ed-tech publications cover these stories when before they insisted these weren’t ed-tech). .”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

” The new software is supposed to get students ready for “the Salesforce economy,” whatever the hell that means. “ Is Homework Compatible With Personalized Learning? “ No State Will Measure Social-Emotional Learning Under ESSA. Technology, Education, and the Media.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.) Furthermore, at launch, Pokémon Go demanded users sign over a great deal of personal data and grant permissions to the app that, for a time , gave it access to a user’s entire Google account.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Meanwhile, via Inside Higher Ed : “ Stackable credential pathways have plenty of promise, but a new study fuels worries about poorly designed programs shunting underrepresented student groups into short-term programs of questionable value.” Khan Academy wants to start offering diplomas. What could go wrong?!

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

Via Education Week : “Congress Budget Deal Bans New Gold-Standard Studies of Federal Vouchers.” ” Via The LA Times : “Trump is ending Michelle Obama’s ‘ Let Girls Learn ’ initiative, CNN reports.” I wrote about social-emotional learning (algorithms) as a “trend to watch.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. Indeed, DonorsChoose.org expects teachers to leverage their social media presence in order to fundraise for supplies for their classrooms.

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

Rather it’s a history itself – ideally one that’s useful for our thinking about the past, present, and future in the way in which the study of history always should be. Personalization, in all these manifestations, is a programmatic expression of individualism.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

And “personalization” is the underlying promise of the new education software Facebook is itself building. Basecamp is essentially a learning management system (with the adjective “personalized” appended to it). average by 1.23 in math and 1.95 in reading, shown below.

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