Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

.” Lots, lots more about Betsy DeVos’ policies in the student loan and for-profit higher ed sections below. Via Politico : “The American Action Forum , a right-leaning public policy group, is recommending that DeVos consider gutting the federal student aid pilot programs created under the Higher Education Act.

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MSEDTechie

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Or, find out whether information will be communicated through a district or school website, or through social media sites like Twitter or Facebook. What’s your policy on cyberbullying?Will 5) What is the campus policy on cell phones and personal devices brought to the school? How can the school support him/her?

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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

To achieve this, though, we’ll need to educate people very differently ( Robot-Proof: How Colleges Can Keep People Relevant in the Workplace ). Learners are consuming real time and constant information, media, and news via Google, Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, and forms of social media via their mobile devices.

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Digital Learning Day (DLD), held on February 5, immersed kids from coast to coast in activities like tinkering with robotics, penning blog posts, and painting digital canvases. Technology can’t reach its full potential to enhance learning unless public policy keeps up with the need for equal access to broadband and devices.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Our social media page is HERE with links to Facebook , Google+ , Twitter , and more. Klees, Professor of International Education Policy / Carol Anne Spreen A Global Shift in Mindset: How to develop innovative leaders? and the world. Publicity resources, along with images you can use, are HERE. Ryan Makhani, M.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. Google also invests in think tanks, the policy and research institutions that are so prolific in Washington DC and so influential in turn in helping to shape policy and the narratives about the future. They’re amazing.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye the week of March 13, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. It is a massive innovative market with supportive government policies and strong market demand. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Our Twitter hashtag is #stemx13, and we have some resources for publicizing at [link]. Candidate VoiceThread for Digital Education - Kelli Stair- teacher/ writer An Example STEAM and Maker-Education Curriculum: From Puppets to Robots - Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D. Spreading the word : this a free event, so be sure to tell others!

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Another surprise was a turn in public perception of giant technology companies, especially Facebook and Google, as well as Twitter and Amazon. They argue that putatively equitable technologies actually reinstate social inequalities. We shouldn’t be surprised to see educational technology become increasingly political.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

“Will Reversal of FCC’s ‘Net Neutrality’ Policy Help or Hurt Schools?” “ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity ,” ProPublica reports. Department of Labor as a senior policy adviser.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot. Google’s Alphabet Inc.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

It points to policies the university can pro-actively ennact, and laws that could have been enforced by university police.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via TeacherCast : “Why Teachers Will Never Be Replaced By Robots.” ” Via Education Dive : “Researcher: AI won’t replace teachers.”

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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. ” Via The Wall Street Journal : “More Schools Are Buying ‘ Active-Shooter ’ Insurance Policies.” ” That’s at Smith College.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

Via Chalkbeat : “ DeVos criticizes Bush-Obama policies , saying it’s time to overhaul conventional schooling.” “PISA for personality testing – the OECD and the psychometric science of social-emotional skills ” by Ben Williamson. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Monstrous, really.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

. “High school students will be allowed to carry mace in the 2016–2017 school year after the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education agreed to remove prohibitive language and amend its policy,” the Salisbury Post reports. ” I have lots of questions about this report: “ Who’s winning at social media in higher ed?

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

” There’s more about Betsy DeVos and her policies in the courts section and in the financial aid section below. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Another controversial policy proposal in Wisconsin would eliminate all programs with fewer than five majors annually, on average, if ‘remediation’ didn’t work.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

And certainly the expectation of many ed-tech products (and increasingly school policy) is that parents will do just this — participate in the incessant monitoring of student data. 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

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Don’t mess with her on Twitter. ” That’s because the stories told this year to keep us hustling and to keep up imagining a certain kind of future are almost all about robots. Over and over and over and over and over and over and over again we were told “robots are coming for your jobs.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

” Via Politico : “ Several Trump appointees shared unflattering views of minorities, women on social media.” Says He Will Lead Federal Task Force on Higher-Ed Policy,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. 2 job at the U.S. ” “ Jerry Falwell Jr.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

That fuzziness – “ moving goalposts ” as math educator Dan Meyer has called it – does not stop the word “personalization” from being used all the time in policy documents and press releases: “ personalized test prep ” and “ personalized CliffNotes ” and the like.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

A hacked school Twitter account in Florida. I delete all my old social media now on a regular and ongoing basis. There were other high profile incidents as well: the refusal, for example, to give visas to the all-girls robotics team from Afghanistan. million scammed from MacEwan University. A privacy breach at Stanford.

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Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

Department of State has received emergency approval from the Office of Management and Budget to collect additional information regarding certain visa applicants ’ travel and employment histories, familial connections, and social media usage in accordance with a notice it posted in the Federal Register May 4.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “Frank Brogan, the chancellor of the Pennsylvania State University System from 2013 until retiring this year, has joined the Department of Education in the Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development – likely ahead of a nomination to a separate position.” ” No.

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Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

” Via Motherboard : “ Twitter Is Banning Anyone Whose Date of Birth Says They Joined Before They Were 13.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. More on the latest Pew study on teens and social media – I noted it in last week’s round-up – in Education Week and by Bryan Alexander.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

“15 Ways Taylor Swift ’s Lyrics Solve Education Policy ’s Most Pressing Issues” is, no doubt, the most godawful white lady thing I’ve seen this week in education news. ” Inside Higher Ed looks at how Notre Dame is changing its policies and practices regarding campus sexual assault. What Should I Ask?)”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

But I wanted to consider too why the stories we repeatedly tell about education and education technology were so fanciful – stories about impending disruptions and revolutions and robot teachers and brain zappers and so on. But blaming social media is too easy and too simplistic. A 30-minute search.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

“ Trump and Chief Strategist Pick Bannon Disagreed on Foreign Student Policy,” says Inside Higher Ed. Related, from the Social Media Collective : “Spike in Online Gig Work : Flash in the Pan or Future of Employment?” ” “ Robot Takeover of Higher Ed Hits a Snag,” Inside Higher Ed reports.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Foxx , a North Carolina Republican who just won election to her seventh term in Congress, was named on Friday as the new chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce , the main policy-making panel for higher education in the chamber.” ” “So-So Social Media Privacy?

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