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Is technology necessary to personalizelearning? However, it remains clear that more work and investment are needed over the long run to address the digital equity challenge of today and provide robust broadband connectivity for all students in and outside of school.”.
Facebook unveiled its newest education project, the PersonalizedLearning Plan (PLP), and in doing so underscored the need for greater broadband access in public school classrooms across the country. Parents across the country overwhelmingly support personalizedlearning experiences for their children.
The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalizedlearning, innovation, and digital equity. Looking Forward.
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The New York Times notes it’s not just rural students who struggle with broadband access : “Why San Jose Kids Do Homework in Parking Lots.” ” (So instead of “testing” we’ll have ubiquitous, non-stop surveillance / assessment via “personalizedlearning.” ” Winning.).
For instance, classroom videos posted on Facebook and Twitter could help convince parents that the school’s recently purchased computers are being used for creative and collaborative projects rather than rote practice and remedial work.
It’s not really “free Internet,” of course – it’s Facebook as Internet. From the FCC : “Fact Sheet on Broadband Consumer Privacy Proposal.” Via Venture Beat : “ Facebook and Oculus promise millions in funding for diverse apps, education, and more for VR.” Dead) Cordelia?
Alongside four other school communities, we selected it because the majority of the district’s students returned to in-personlearning during the 2020-2021 school year — and officials identified Covid-19 cases in under 5 percent of the student population. According to the CDC, about 5 percent of school-aged children in the U.S.
Eric Holcomb says Indiana ’s low-rated online charter schools need ‘immediate attention and action’ ” Via Motherboard : “Half of West Virginia has Applied for Broadband Assistance.” Facebook is coming for your children. ” Education in the Courts.
Underscoring how precarious this labor is, an adjunct at the school lost her teaching contract one week after the Chronicle story was published, after she defended LGBTQ rights in a post on Facebook.). broadband privacy rules.” ” From August: “ Republicans try to take cheap phones and broadband away from poor people.”
“ FCC Delays Are Keeping Broadband From Rural School Kids,” says Wired. ” From the ASU website : “Panelists discuss future of personalizedlearning.” ” Via Techcrunch : “ Login With Facebook data hijacked by JavaScript trackers.” ” That’s CollegePlannerPro.
.” “Modern E-Rate Puts Telephones On Hold in K–12,” Education Week reports , noting that schools are struggling to pay for phone service (still totally necessary) as well as expanded broadband. ” More on this scramble to serve (profit from) low-income broadband customers in the upgrades/downgrades section below.
Via Education Week : “ Trump Signs Orders on Rural Broadband Access.” Via The New York Times : “ Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share.” I dunno… Via Techcrunch : “ IBM led on patents in 2017, Facebook broke into top 50 for the first time.” News at 11.
Edsurge runs with Trump’s promise to boost rural broadband like it’s a truth anyone can count on. ” The charter school, which is closing it doors, is the Merit Preparatory Charter School , run by “personalizedlearning” charter chain Matchbook Learning. ” That is the Sophie B.
” Via Ars Technica : “Senate Democrats fight FCC plan to lower America’s broadband standards.” million to cover federal funds that went to the botched statewide school broadband contract.” ” Daniel Willingham on learning styles. ” (State and Local) Education Politics. Its Children Lost.”
Via Wired : “ Ajit Pai ’s Plan Will Take Broadband Away From Poor People.” How much money does the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative spent in order to place advertorials about personalizedlearning in ed-tech publications like Edsurge ? ” (State and Local) Education Politics. are stuck in place economically.“
” Via Education Week : “ FCC Revokes Decision Allowing Companies to Provide Low-Income Families With Subsidized Broadband.” Facebook has decided to obey the law , announcing this week that “ discriminatory advertising has no place on Facebook.” ” More via WaPo. ” Listen. .”
” “One Standardized Tests Provider Looks to Gaming and PersonalizedLearning to Innovate Exams” – Edsurge on ETS. Via The Guardian : “ Facebook asks users: should we allow men to ask children for sexual images ?” Memos from HR. Venture) Philanthropy and the Business of Education Reform.
Equifax , Facebook , facial recognition , DACA , etc.). And whether you are personally concerned about issues of privacy (perhaps because you believe you have nothing to hide ), you should be concerned about the ability of even the most sophisticated technology company to keep the data collected about you secure. .’
Equifax , Facebook , facial recognition , DACA , etc.). And whether you are personally concerned about issues of privacy (perhaps because you believe you have nothing to hide ), you should be concerned about the ability of even the most sophisticated technology company to keep the data collected about you secure. .’
Via Edsurge : “Possible ‘Fraud, Theft, Waste, and Abuse’: Report Questions NYC School Broadband Spending.” Related: “‘ Harvard Crimson ’ Site Is Hacked to Take Jabs at Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg ,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. ” Immigration and Education.
“Higher education and library associations called on the Federal Communications Commission Thursday to uphold Obama-era rules requiring broadband providers to treat all traffic on the internet equally,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Via The New York Times : “ Oculus Founder, at Center of Legal Battle Over VR, Departs Facebook.”
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