The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 5, 2014

We''ll provide the training and lots of support to those of you who are able to volunteer an hour or two of your time this week. Special thanks for this go to our sponsor, Blackboard Collaborate, for providing the service that allows us to do this! Saturday, August 9th at 12pm Classroom 2.0 Classroom 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

MP3 and MP4 versions will be available as well as the full Blackboard Collaborate recordings, although they take some days to process. Candidate VoiceThread for Digital Education - Kelli Stair- teacher/ writer An Example STEAM and Maker-Education Curriculum: From Puppets to Robots - Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D. Torrey Trust, Ph.D.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

Special thanks for this go to our sponsor, Blackboard Collaborate, for providing the service that allows us to do this! Do you have students or library users ages 9 - 17 that can answer the questions Do you have what it takes to put a robot on the Moon? Saturday, March 22nd at 12pm CR20 LIVE Weekly Show with Erin Klein , Classroom 2.0

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says. Students engaged with an Acuitus training program that combines computer-based learning with human mentors to compress 10 years of experience and learning into 5 months.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Personalized learning argues that the entrepreneurial nature of the knowledge economy and the gaping need, diversity and unmanageable size of a typical public school classroom are ill-served by the usual arrangement of a teacher lecturing at a blackboard.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

The LMS giant Blackboard celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. (I For updates on the other major LMS providers – or at least, dispatches from their annual conferences, read Mindwires’ Consulting on Instructure , Blackboard , and D2L. Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Presenters - Please Check Your Instructions Presenters: make sure you have joined the presenter group on the site, that you have read carefully the instructions there and in the emails that have been sent to you, and that you have taken or watched the training (critical). Volunteering + Advisory Board - We Need You!

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Saving Socrates

DECEMBER 3, 2014

A blackboard can be effective or ineffective. But, do I think suddenly school buildings will crumble, teachers will be replaced by robots, and the very notion of elementary school will cease to exist? I can use a pencil effectively or ineffectively as well. Of course a smart board too. It''s just now a given that you do.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

The Business of Job Training (and the Business of Jobs Giving Educational Benefits for Employees). “The Moodle / Blackboard Breakup: The Long and the Short of It” by e-Literate’s Michael Feldstein. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2017

EverFi (“critical skills” training) – $190 million. MakeBlock (robotics) – $30 million. EverFi (“critical skills” training) – $251 million. Pluralsight (skills training) – $192.5 Udemy (skills training marketplace) – $173 million.

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Via Chalkbeat’s Colorado news desk : “$35 million for school safety will go toward training, but not hiring, of school resource officers.” ” The Business of Job Training. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Teacher strike stories are in the “labor and management” section below.

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

” There’s more news from the White House in the job training section below. The Business of Job Training. “ Is Blackboard dying? ” Just grand that Facebook is running a bunch of media literacy and digital training courses for community colleges. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

The school district is working to raise money for more computers and technology training, hoping to better prepare its students for an increasingly digitized economy. Third grade students at Meeker Elementary school share an iPad in a blended learning class in Greeley, Colorado. Photo: Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

” The Business of Job Training (and Educational Benefits for Employees). Via the MIT Technology Review : “ Walmart will use VR headsets to train all its US employees.” Blackboard is rebranding Moodlerooms as Blackboard Open LMS. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” LOL.

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

” The Business of Job Training. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “Comparing the First Ten Years of Blackboard and Instructure in LMS Market.” Via NPR : “Why More Than A Million Teachers Can’t Use Social Security.” ” (Psst.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2018

More “MOOC” news under the job training section below. ” The Business of Job Training. ” Via the press release : “ Blackboard Bringing Contactless Student IDs to Apple Wallet for Campuses Nationwide.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Heatherton.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

So this, from the American Enterprise Institute , is completely unsurprising: “School-choice advocate Steve Jobs in 1995: ‘The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education’ ” The Business of Job Training. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Contests and Awards. Never change. ” asks IEEE.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The group, which is the primary trade organization for the for-profit sector, is announcing a new campaign to close the skills gap with five million trained professionals.” Via abc.net.au : “ Queensland children as young as four will learn coding and robotics as a compulsory part of their education from next year.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

Via Techcrunch : “ Blackboard cofounder Michael Chasen takes CEO reins at PrecisionHawk.” The Business of Job Training and Job Placement. “Can robotics teach problem solving to students?” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” More robot crap in the Betteridge’s section above.

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Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

” Via Education Week : “For Principals, Student Sexting a Speeding ‘Freight Train,’ Full of Peril.” ” The Business of Job Training. Via NPR : “Students Compete In First-Ever International High School Robotics Competition.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Go, School Sports Team!

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2018

I’m also putting some MOOC news in the job training section. I’m just making note of this so, down the road, we can talk about VR and sports training and how well the US Olympic ski team does or doesn’t perform in Pyeongchang. The Business of Job Training. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

” She promises that every kid will learn to code (of course) by having the private sector train CS teachers. “ Robots won’t replace teachers because they can’t inspire us.” One company not using Amazon to run its computing infrastructure: Blackboard. Her “ innovation agenda.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

” The Business of Job Training. Inside Higher Ed examines the challenges facing LMS provider Blackboard. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via CNBC : “Google exec, Mark Cuban agree that these college majors are the most robot-resistant.” It’s an “awareness gap.” Move along.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Nope, robots will not be doing this job of content moderation , as Facebook recently boasted at its developer conference. The Business of Job Training. ” The Pew Research Center asked “experts” about “The Future of Jobs and Jobs Training.” Happy 20th anniversary to Blackboard.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

The Business of Job Training. “ Blackboard ’s Defense of its Finances is not Persuasive,” writes Michael Feldstein. Also from Feldstein : “ Moodle and Blackboard Cut Ties.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” The official: Steven G. The company: RIB Software SE. More via AJC.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 18, 2017

Meanwhile, in the UK: “ Learndirect training contract withdrawn over standards concerns,” the BBC reports. “Learndirect, which offers apprenticeships and adult training at sites across England, is responsible for almost 73,000 trainees and employs more than 1,600 staff.” The Business of Job Training.

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Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

” The Business of Job Training. A teacher in front of a blackboard. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Tarena International has acquired the K–12 robotics company Wuhan Haoxiaozi Robot Technology (a.k.a. Watch how the narratives about “the future of education” are crafted.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are a variety of reasons for this: language barriers, lack of Internet access, incompatible devices, lack of training. Also, let me introduce you to other items on this list: brainwave monitoring, brain training, social emotional learning.). People were relieved that there was a new alternative to Blackboard. Unbundling".

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Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

.” That is, the latest from Blackboard announcing a string of changes to executive roles. The Business of Job Training. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Adjunct faculty at Nazareth College have voted to unionize. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Southern Illinois U.

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Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. The Business of Job Training. Why is this in the job training section of the Hack Education Weekly News, you ask? ” asks The Atlantic. “ Are Universities Training Socially Minded Programmers? ” asks The Atlantic.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

“Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot ,” says The Wall Street Journal in a story about “Jill Watson” (of course it’s a female name), an automated teaching assistant at Georgia Tech. “ Blackboard Partners with Fishtree for Personalized Learning,” says Campus Technology.

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