ASIDE

MAY 10, 2016

Source: ASIDE 2016 Born digitals deftly use technology; for them, it just is. They do it through social media. We would argue that today's heightened interest in robotics is not in using the technology to program, but instead in actually watching the robots come alive. We are decades past this discussion.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

His honors include being named Florida’s 2014 Superintendent of the Year, the 2014 National Superintendent of the Year, the 2016 winner of the Harold W. Karen is mom to two college-aged sons, wife to an entrepreneur/ woodworker, loves to travel, and coaches robotics in her spare time. In this highlight, Alberto M.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. Let me share some materials here, along with reflections on the conference.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 29, 2016

The second annual Student Technology Conference, a free one-day online event bringing together students, educators and innovators from around the world, is tomorrow, Saturday, January 30, 2016 from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm US-EST. We invite all to attend! Times are US-EST, see the schedule for your own time zone and any updates.

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ASIDE

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

For our middle schoolers, who are often nervous about recording their own voices, the choice of a “robot” narrator was a blessing in and of itself. And the superb narrative options allow users either to upload their own voices or to select from two automated personas.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

JANUARY 23, 2016

My name is Andy Plemmons, school library media specialist at David C Barrow Elementary in Athens GA @barrowmediacenter I will take over the DOE account this week. A photo posted by GA Department of Education (@georgiadeptofed) on Jan 18, 2016 at 4:39am PST. Social media accounts have a lot of power.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Comprehensive, cross-curricular lesson plans range from a look at the history of manufacturing to STEM-based interactives on robotics, and are designed to stimulate insightful conversations between educators and students. Established in 2016, Arconic Foundation is active in 26 countries around the globe.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

His honors include being named Florida’s 2014 Superintendent of the Year, the 2014 National Superintendent of the Year, the 2016 winner of the Harold W. Karen is mom to two college-aged sons, wife to an entrepreneur/ woodworker, loves to travel, and coaches robotics in her spare time. In this highlight, Alberto M.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

. “ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity ,” ProPublica reports. Schools should consider the ways in which their own social media surveillance re-inscribes these sorts of violent, nationalist policies.

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User Generated Education

JULY 2, 2017

Articles, resources on social media, and conference presentations on these topics are proliferating at a rate that most educators are now familiar with maker education. As Adam Savage of Mythbusters fame noted in his 2016 Bay Area Maker Faire talk: What is making? It is a term for an old thing, it is a new term for an old thing.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Thanks to the GEC Sponsors Social Media Amazing List of Currently Scheduled Sessions! Our founding sponsor International Education Resources Network (IEARN) will continue to support us for the 2016 Global Education Conference. Become a Partner Organization! We're Still Taking Proposals!

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Dr. Nicholas Kardaras is the author of the 2016 book Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids. There are the ones, overwhelmingly boys, who spend so much time playing video games that, in his words, they “fall behind in their social skills.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation, which has given money to charter schools (including Success Academy Charter Schools), media organizations (including The 74), and conservative education organizations (including Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education). Wonder Workshop (robotics) – $41 million.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Platforms provide the substructure for the “gig economy” and the “sharing economy”; they’re the economic engine of social media; they’re the architecture of the “attention economy” and the inspiration for claims about the “end of ownership.”

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

His 2010 book was called What Technology Wants , as though technology is a living being with desires and drives; the title of his 2016 book, The Inevitable. Take, for example, the founding editor of the technology trade magazine Wired , Kevin Kelly. We humans, in this framework, have no agency, no choice. This data is big data.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2018

But as recently as 2016, a Gallup research poll conducted by Google found that only 40 percent of U.S. Within District 36, Burleson explains, “We have buckets of technology: construction, robotics, circuitry and electronics, and coding. Robotics and coding: Robot Turtle board game, Sphero, NAO robot.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2017

I suspect the spark for them was Bernie Sanders’ proposal during the 2016 presidential campaign, as that clearly resonated with many voters, especially younger ones, and was soon revised and taken up by Hillary Clinton’s team. They argue that putatively equitable technologies actually reinstate social inequalities.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ For-Profit Companies With the Highest Enrollments at Their Colleges, Fall 2016.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “Kids connect with robot reading partners ,” says the PR office of the University of Wisconsin Madison.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

” More on teen social media usage, this time from Buzzfeed : “‘Tweetdecking’ Is Taking Over Twitter. ” The Atlantic on what it’s like being a parent of a social media star. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via The Outline : “Pyramid schemes target Snapchat teens.”

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

in 2016 on a student visa.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via The New York Post : “Doctors slam sex robot ‘family mode’ ” “Where Are The Robot Teachers ?” “ Robots in the classroom ? ” asks Pacific Standard. ” asks Peter Greene.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 5, 2018

The Atlantic on Logan Paul : “The Social-Media Star and the Suicide.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “Fall 2016 IPEDS First Look: Continued growth in distance education in US.” ” Venture Capital and the Business of Ed-Tech. .”

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Hack Education

APRIL 21, 2017

” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via Techcrunch : “ Robot tutor Musio makes its retail debut in Japan.” Via iNews : “ University to monitor student social media to gauge well-being.” .” What higher ed can learn from American Express , according to venture capitalist Ryan Craig.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2016

” “ The Most Popular Courses of 2016 ” on Coursera. “Could robots be marking your homework ?” ” “ Ed-Tech Research That Mattered in 2016,” according to Education Week. Via The Awl : “Letting Kids Use Social Media Is One More Way We Show Them We Don’t Care About Them.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Either way, he’s gone too soon; we’ve lost too much , too many in 2016. pic.twitter.com/BBhsgwY2FZ — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) August 1, 2016. Robots are coming for education jobs, the Brookings Institution insisted in January. Read Mindstorms. There were many remembrances penned for Seymour this year.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Obama administration’s Education Department failed to consider key evidence when it reviewed and ultimately terminated its recognition of the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools in 2016, a federal judge ruled late Friday.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

” “Students, Directory Information , and Social Media – Part 2” by Bill Fitzgerald. Data and “Research” My latest calculations on ed-tech venture capital : “Ed-Tech Startup Funding Data: August 2016.” Via WaPo : “Study: Robot baby dolls don’t curb teen pregnancies.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

tl;dr: emailing them, holding webinars, using social media. ” Via The Tennessean : “ Belmont University ousted a student Tuesday after he made a social media post using the N-word to describe black NFL football players, who he said needed a ‘bullet in their head.’” Heckuva job.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

” For those keeping track of how great social media is for the future of education and knowledge and civics and such: “Last Year, Social Media Was Used to Influence Elections in at Least 18 Countries ,” says the MIT Technology Review. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via Edsurge : “Help!

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

K98BwFMkIc @ryancraiguv #edtech pic.twitter.com/3mITJHvODv — EdSurge HigherEd (@HigherEdSurge) November 11, 2016. Via Politico : “The Education Department estimates that in fiscal year 2016 it incorrectly calculated more than $2.2 ” “ Robot Takeover of Higher Ed Hits a Snag,” Inside Higher Ed reports.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

was named in an investigation by The Associated Press last year for sharing racially charged content on social media.” Via The Guardian : “ Trump bans agencies from ‘providing updates on social media or to reporters’ ” This ban has been targeted at scientists at the EPA and USDA in particular.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

.” 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.” We must prepare preschoolers for an automated future.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Some 280 incidents since January 2016. Immediately following the 2016 elections, I tweeted that “Under a Trump administration: I very much want ed-tech companies and schools to reconsider collecting so much data about students.” I delete all my old social media now on a regular and ongoing basis.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

on Election Day 2016, closed at post-election high of $17.85 “‘Eton for all’: will robot teachers mean everyone gets an elite education? Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. There’s more about Mattel’s robots and privacy in the privacy section below. Technology, Education, and the Media.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

2016 was such a terrible, terrible year, and as I composed my reflections on it for this annual series, I wanted to start by recognizing the pain and the loss. ” These beliefs are readily amplified and shared by the very “network effects” baked into the infrastructure of social media platforms.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Lots of details this week as tech executives testified in front of Congress about Russian interference in the 2016 election. ” “How Social Media Can Help Teach Good Writing,” according to Edsurge. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” The $1700 robot dog also requires a subscription plan.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Maybe social media is broken, Cathy O’Neil suggests. “ Media Literacy When the Platforms Are Complicit ” by Bill Fitzgerald. . “ Media Literacy When the Platforms Are Complicit ” by Bill Fitzgerald. But anyway… Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” No.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Good thing we’re relying on him, instead of social media, eh? Or did you see another CNN host beclowning herself, when a reporter/host/robot confused Edward Snowden and Edward Scissorhands ? CNN helps shape the election, and in a bad way. Is this how they built their idiocracy ?”

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