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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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And the consultant who said Knewton was peddling snake oil, Michael Feldstein, now runs a group called the Empirical Educator Project to promote an evidence-based approach to teaching. “As The planes that they built were not airliners,” says Feldstein. The first flight by the Wright brothers wasn’t far—just 120 feet.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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A couple of years ago, I was part of a year-end webinar with MindWires’ Consulting’s Phil Hill and Michael Feldstein and one or other of them – I don’t remember now – predicted that 2016 would be a big year for the LMS. (Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?).

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via the Education Writers Association : “2016 Finalists for the National Awards for Education Reporting.” ” asks Mindwire Consulting’s Michael Feldstein. Via Buzzfeed : “ Black Teachers Are Leaving The Profession Due To Racism.” ” Contests and Awards. million.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Michael Kadar, who’s been accused of making over two hundred threats to Jewish Community Centers and schools, offered his services online: $30 to email a bomb threat to a school. .” ” “ The Giant Inflatable Trump Chicken of Ed Tech ” by Michael Feldstein. ” From the HR Department. .

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

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My work as a thinker and writer about tech and ed-tech – and one explicitly committed to social justice – has been profoundly affected by Seymour. Michael Teitelbaum, a scholar on the history of STEM, said in 2014 to an audience of education reporters that the post-war U.S.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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More and more public libraries have started eliminating fines too because libraries, unlike Techcrunch writers, do care to alleviate inequality. I wrote about Whittle and his investment pal Michael Moe in an article in The Baffler in January of this year. But new technology hasn’t made it easy. Deliverology". You're sexist.

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