The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

What does personalized learning mean to the perennial tug-of-war over content — in higher education’s “great books” debate over whether students should absorb the Western canon or study what they want, and, at the K-12 level, over the Common Core? Is sameness the key to equal opportunity?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2011

link] EPCOP MOOC WEBINAR ( Australia Series ) Mon 22 Aug 09:00PM New York / Tue 23 Aug 01:00AM GMT / Tue 23 Aug 11:00AM Sydney Coach Carole. We will also be crowd sourcing a monthly webinar schedule to offer PD based sessions using Common Core Standards and STEM resources.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Common Core in Action: Math Classroom Challenges- Using Formative Assessment to Guide Instruction. Common Core in Action II: Exploring Literacy Design Collaborative Tools. eLearning moocs pd Professional development' Commonwealth Education Trust via Coursera. Go To Class | Next Session : 16th Mar, 2015. .

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Following recent conversations about the assessment capacity of MOOCs, this is a great topic! Click here to register. Wednesday, February 26th at 9pm Teachers Teaching Teachers , Weekly conversations hosted by EdTechTalk, a collaborative open webcasting community. Learn more here. Thanks, Ted!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary? Dr. (Assistant Professor of Elementary and Early Childhood Education) Using Scratch and Picoboards to teach "x", Maths and Science - Martin Levins, Director IT What''s The Connection?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 11, 2014

From Common Core State Standards to education technology to advancing issues of equity in the classroom, educators from all types of classroom settings will have unique opportunities to share their stories, gain new tools, learn from the nation’s top innovators and get inspired to achieve greatness in their classrooms and communities.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2014

Magnets Join Race to Replace Transistors in Computers Creating an Ever-Flexible Center for Tech Innovation Canvas Network Announces Minecraft MOOCs and App in a Suite of 15 MOOCs for K-12 Teachers, Students and Parents MIT Team Turns 6.9 Mix Up Your Classroom Library. Homeschooling Becoming Popular in the South. A recent article by T.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

Common Core standards (this one’s not sexy, but few factors impact education more than this index of academic content). MOOCs, nanodegrees, etc. 30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom . The ubiquity of Google search and its impact on curriculum knowledge demands. Planned obsolescence of mobile technology.

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 7, 2015

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) stress the importance of communication, and challenge students to engage in conversation by using evidence to support an argument, while evaluating and listening to others’ perspectives. In this final installment of our series, we focus on speaking and listening.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2014

Wednesday, April 23rd at 7pm ISTE - ISTE Standards and the Common Core Integration in Action , Are you daunted by the prospect of implementing the Common Core State Standards? The Common Core opens the door for innovative teaching techniques to ensure students are college and career ready.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

Common Core Camp in UAE , The camps will introduce American curriculum schools, leaders and educators in the UAE who are new to the Common Core Standards. Learn more here. Saturday, March 22nd at the Dubai Modern Education School, UAE Know.Do.Serve.Learn. Learn more here.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 25, 2016

This works in a low-stakes settings, like a MOOC. A: Remedial classes are more common at community colleges. Q: Ellen Borkowski: will we see schools linking test outcomes to teacher evaluations in Common Core states? A: What about calibrated peer review, matching grades to those of a trained assessor?

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 7, 2015

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) stress the importance of communication, and challenge students to engage in conversation by using evidence to support an argument, while evaluating and listening to others’ perspectives. In this final installment of our series, we focus on speaking and listening.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2015

If we''ve missed a story, send it to blog@learningrevolution.com.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2015

Audrey Beardsley: The Silencing of the Educators, A Dangerous Trend - Diane Ravitch''s blog Raising (and Educating) ''Free Range Kids'' - Hack Education Student Debt Accounts For Nearly Half Of US Government "Assets" Testing Chaos in Seattle - Diane Ravitch''s blog My Objections to the Common Core State Standards (1.0) - Stager-to-Go LibGuides: Pedagogy (..)

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The Gates Foundation has backed a variety of education reform initiatives : charter schools, the Common Core State Standards, “small schools,” inBloom, teacher evaluations, and yes, “personalized learning.”

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Common Core) for individual students. Rather than an outcomes-based and standards-driven approach, it instead seeks local accountability, new knowledge types, and overtly “human” learning models. Individualized Learning. The customizing of universal content (e.g., Informal Learning. ” (11). Mobile Learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

They can be something everybody uses; that’s how 2012 became the year of the MOOC, and why virtual reality will no doubt be widely cited as the trend of 2016. MOOCs continued to increase in number and attendance. By Stephen Downes, National Research Council. Now there are different ways things can be a ‘trend of the year’.

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

You can see neoliberalism, for example, in efforts towards privatization and the outsourcing of core technological capacities to third party vendors. This is part of the push for MOOCs, we must be honest.). In 2012, I chose “the platforming of education” as one of the “top ed-tech trends.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Beyond the MOOC. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education. The Common Core State Standards. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs. The Collapse of For-Profit Higher Education (Or Not). The Compulsion for Data. Social Media, Campus Activism, and Free Speech. Indie Ed-Tech. Data and Privacy. .

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Technology MOOC Trends Khan Academy 60

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Beyond the MOOC. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education. The Common Core State Standards. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs. The Collapse of For-Profit Higher Education (Or Not). The Compulsion for Data. Social Media, Campus Activism, and Free Speech. Indie Ed-Tech. Data and Privacy. .

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

According to the conservative news site The Daily Caller , “Bailing On Common Core Tests Is Costing States Millions.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Here’s The Chronicle headline from then : “Professor Leaves a MOOC in Mid-Course in Dispute Over Teaching.”)

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

.” “Make MOOCs great again.” “ ESSA Would Handcuff a Trump Education Secretary on Common Core And More,” says Education Week , even though ditching Common Core was one of Trump’s campaign promises. . More on the future of Common Core from NPR. Is that possible?

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Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Speaking of openwashing : “ Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core , Rise of ‘Open’ Resources.” .” Here’s the WaPo headline : “Girls outscore boys on inaugural national test of technology, engineering skills.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2016

” Via KJZZ : “ Arizona Board Of Education Replaces Common Core State Standards.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Buzzfeed : “ Online Charter Schools Prepare For A Trump-Era Boom.” ” The Trump Administration.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2016

“Anti- Common Core Groups Unhappy About Trump Ed Secretary Pick Betsy DeVos ,” says the Sunshine State News. ’” Online Education, Beyond “MOOCs” Via Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill : “The Remarkable Transformation at UF Online.” million to Ohio.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 12, 2016

.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Education Dive makes claims about “ MOOCs as tools for equity in under-resourced high schools.” ” Elsewhere, more claims about “the global poor” and MOOCs (and other ed-tech companies) in Edsurge. .”

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Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

Testing, Testing… “ Nevada officials announced Tuesday that a common-core assessment consortium will credit the state $1.8 Via Education Next : “The Politics of the Common Core Assessments.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Are MOOCs Forever ? .”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

MOOCs are out. Performance on PISA Decline Because of Common Core? .” It’s a partnership with Guild Education. More via Techcrunch. Bootcamps are in. Or something. This Week in Betteridge’s Law of Headlines. “ Is Alison The Answer To The World’s Education Needs? ” asks Forbes. “ Did U.S.

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Hack Education

JULY 29, 2016

Via Politico : Stolen “emails from the Democratic National Committee show DNC Deputy Communications Director Eric Walker telling his colleagues to avoid mentioning the Common Core in a video. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Get rid of it.’” The University System of Maryland joins edX.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

According to excerpts of speeches published by Wikileaks – stolen data – Clinton called the Common Core a “political failure” in a speech she gave to Knewton. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Microsoft -Branded MOOCs for K–12 Leaders.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Via Education Week : “Even When States Revise Standards, the Core of the Common Core Remains.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “Are You Getting a Pay Bump For Student Completion? ” “Whatever Happened To MOOCs ?”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ MOOCs : A Postmortem” by Jonathan Rees. Meanwhile, Campus Technology offers “7 Tips for Listing MOOCs on Your Résumé.” ” Story says “could be.” ” Tech PR gonna PR.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

” Despite all the Common Core-aligned revisions and all the headlines to the contrary, “ The New SAT Won’t Close the Achievement Gap.” ” The material involved MOOCs that it had produced with edX as well as videos posted to iTunes and YouTube. ” and “are you white?”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Testing, Testing… Via Education Week : “After seven years of tumult and transition fueled by the common core, state testing is settling down, with most states rejecting the federally funded PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessments, and nearly one-quarter embracing the SAT or the ACT as their official high school test.”

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