The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Monday, March 3rd at 9:15am PST in Hollywood, CA Common Sense Media - Identifying the Learning Potential of Apps, Websites, and Games , Graphite.org, a free service by Common Sense Media, offers four great ways to identify and integrate digital tools into your teaching. Click here to register. Learn more here. Thanks, Ted!

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Don Buckley - Co-Founder, Tools at Schools - "Is it Possible to Innovate in Education?" Candidate Advanced math for the young, the very young, and the young at heart - Dr. Maria Droujkova Affinity Spaces as Learning Tools - Lindsey Tropf, M.Ed.

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MARCH 11, 2014

We’ll wrap up by showing you a fast tool for building your yearbook online, and share how other schools generated profits from their yearbook club. Common Core Camp , The camps will introduce American curriculum schools, leaders and educators in the UAE who are new to the Common Core Standards. Learn more here.

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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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APRIL 22, 2014

Participants will engage in a variety of projects using modern tools and technology – the perfect way to get ready for ISTE. 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?

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MARCH 19, 2014

Get to know SnapThought – one of our assessment tools – and the new game Sortify, which adds another dimension to playful assessment. 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. Join here !

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 25, 2016

The tool gathers data down to the level of a student’s individual private browsing and search history, both on school premises and elsewhere – i.e., at home. Testing tools aren’t very good now. They could then use that tool to stage interventions. This works in a low-stakes settings, like a MOOC.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2015

In todays episode, we will walk you through the process of uploading a video and turning it into a dynamic lesson plan using the YouTube Creative Suite of Tools found FREE on your Google Powered Device. Sunday, April 19th at 7pm TechEducator Podcast: YouTube Creative Studio , Learn how to harness the power of the FREE YouTube creative studio.

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APRIL 20, 2015

Library 2.015 Worldwide Virtual Conference: Tools, Skills & Competencies , October 20th The fifth annual global conversation about the future of libraries is scheduled for Tuesday, October 20th, 2015. The Bloggers'' Cafe will be open Friday - Wednesday, and we''re really hoping to add an education slam poetry event still.

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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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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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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.” ” Instead, it said it would offer some diagnostic tools online.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

It is similar to place-based education and project-based learning as a teaching tool. Stated simply, a flipped classroom is one where students are introduced to content at home through digital tools (usually video), and then practice it at school under the guidance of a teacher. Common Core) for individual students.

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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

So I am not here to tell you, based on my analysis of ed-tech “trends,” what new tools you should buy or what new tools you should incorporate into your teaching or what old tools you should discard. This is part of the push for MOOCs, we must be honest.). I scrutinize the headlines. I listen to stories.

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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”). In other news culled from the Google blog: “ Introducing Spaces , a tool for small group sharing.” ” And “ Education news from Google I/O : tools to take learning further.” ” Funding and Acquisitions (The Business of Ed-Tech).

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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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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? Illuminate Education has acquired visualization tool eduCLIMBER. ” Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “ 40 Most Popular Ed-Tech Tools in K–12 Identified in New Analysis.” .” It’s a partnership with Guild Education.

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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

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.” Harassment using annotation tools. ” The material involved MOOCs that it had produced with edX as well as videos posted to iTunes and YouTube.

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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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Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

As if applying for financial aid wasn’t difficult enough already, it appears that the IRS Data Retrieval Tool, which pulls tax information into the FAFSA app, “ will be unavailable for several weeks.” Robots hate the Common Core. Education Politics. ” Great timing, IRS. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

” I’m a little surprised that either of these women – both Democrats, both Common Core supporters, if nothing else – would be under serious consideration. is disappointed in Common Core. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” The book was racist.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Affluent students get to digital tools for creative exploration; poor students get to use theirs for test prep. Purdue boasted that Course Signals increased retention by 21%, making it an incredibly effective tool. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. Uber for Education". “We

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AUGUST 18, 2017

” Testing, Testing… PARCC Inc , best known as one of the Common Core test-makers, is “moving in a new direction,” Politico reports. The new focus: “classroom tools and services geared toward school districts.” ” The Business of Student Loans.

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

“Trump Taps Common-Core Foe Mick Zais for No. In the future, you might want to look for most MOOC-related news in the “business of job training” section below. Campus Management Corp has acquired the following tools from Hobsons: ApplyYourself , AppReview , Connect , Radius , and Retain CRM.

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MAY 5, 2017

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The IRS data retrieval tool that let financial aid applicants automatically import income information into the FAFSA won’t be restored for the current aid cycle, said James Runcie, chief operating officer of the Office of Federal Student Aid, in written testimony to Congress Wednesday.”

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

Testing, Testing… “ Common Core testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on social media,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs for credit ! The Common Core aligned reading software maker had raised $1.8

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MAY 13, 2016

” Via Chalkbeat : “They rejected multi-state Common Core exams. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). In related MOOC news, there's more on “ nanodegrees ” in the “credentialing” section below. – this time in science. “How Hard Is the New SAT ?”

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JUNE 3, 2016

Via Education Week : “New Test Pitched As Alternative to Common Core-Focused High School Exams.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “The Future of MOOCs Might Not Be Free ,” suggests Education Week’s Market Brief with an observation that many of us made back in 2012.

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DECEMBER 16, 2016

As a tool of power, accountability processes shift authority and control to policymakers, bureaucrats, and test makers over professional educators,” Data & Society’s Claire Fontaine wrote in a working paper released this summer on the use of data in education. “To keep schools accountable,” in part.

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