Edsurge
MARCH 2, 2019
Even popular culture, where robot teachers and wired students have been a staple of science fiction for decades, demonstrates our tendency to project current beliefs that schools should “leverage” (i.e., be built around) those technologies perceived as representing the latest form of modernity.
Edsurge
JULY 6, 2016
There is a compelling history of thinking and analysis to support it, not to mention all the history when we had no computers, which makes it worth protecting, promoting, and adapting to the needs of the future, such as computational thinking. This is where your “old fashioned” hands-on learning comes in.
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Edsurge
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Kidaptive first entered the edtech market in 2012 with Leo’s Pad, a game-based learning app that offered mini-games and puzzles to assess cognitive skills in young children. All of this data crunching and analysis happens on the backend. To date, Kidaptive has now raised about $31 million. We’re entirely invisible,” he adds. “If
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
Edmondson Elementary Principal Trish Malik, who has been at the school since 2012, visits with Cheryl Cook and Michelle Myers, who work on family and community partnerships at the Thompson School District, before a January family event. Photo: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report.
Edsurge
MARCH 13, 2019
Not quite enough time for our robot overlords to overtake us, but both distant and soon enough to make us wonder. The early rise of the iPad peaked in 2012-13 at about 40 percent of shipments. And if you’re still wondering about our robot overlords and where they fit in—well, what do you think the current K-12 boom in coding is for?
Hack Education
OCTOBER 28, 2016
“Over the next few years, textbooks should be obsolete” – Arne Duncan, 2012. Zombie ideas, according to Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman are “beliefs about policy that have been repeatedly refuted with evidence and analysis but refuse to die.” ” Robots are coming for our jobs.
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.” I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow.
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