Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

I was there for a few reasons, starting with having the fine opportunity to lead a pre conference workshop, followed by presenting on two panels, helping out with a Twitter component, and reconnecting with dozens of friends and colleagues. On Twitter several people, on site and out of country, praised open as a business model.

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Conference ePortfolio LMS Education 40

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

And then, not two days later, I heard Twitter has reclassified their app as a news purveyor rather than a social media device. Once again: Who gets news from Twitter? No surprise news shows are littered with references to listener’s tweets and presidential candidates break stories via their Twitter stream.

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Facebook Social Media Edmodo Twitter 150

TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

In short, by “disruption,” we are referring to something that causes the kind of impact that leads to change. I’ve listed some examples of disruption in education below, and ranked them (though obviously the ranking is entirely subjective and only useful as a crude reference point to start your own thinking).

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Examples Classroom Maker Movement Social Media 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Previously, she was a Technology Integrator at Sacred Heart teaching robotics and programming to 5th through 7th grades and supporting the faculty''s technology and integration needs. Maker Thinking is related to the DIY mindset and refers to a process of thinking through making, emphasizing tinkering resourcefulness.

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Conference Education Pearson Technology 59

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.

Technology 85

Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

Via The Guardian : “ Student Loans Company ‘spied on vulnerable students’ social media’ ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. politician roils USC , which referred case to federal prosecutors.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” asks Edsurge. ” Great.

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Education Pearson Company Blackboard 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Don’t mess with her on Twitter. I’ve already made references to for-profit higher education in the second and third articles in this year-end series – on the “ innovation gospel ” and on the business of student loans. .” Robots are much more ideal as workers, because of course they cannot unionize.

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Robotics MOOC Training Industry 59