eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

FTW Robotics displayed its drone technology in booth #518 that is currently in 1K schools throughout the United States. For The Win Robotics focuses on fostering critical thinking and lifelong curiosity through the power of experiential STEM and computer science education through drone technology.

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

I dislike fraudulent courses. graduation rates — up to a record 83 percent — and whether it is real or an elaborate scam. Tagged on: July 23, 2017 ED warns schools of another widespread ransomware attack | Future of Ed Tech e-Newsletter → In light of a recent widespread ransomware attack, the U.S. I think the latter."

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The school district couldn’t cover the cost of non-recurring construction to build fiber to their most rural school with just E-rate. He saw this first-hand when his son couldn’t stream his online college courses. Jim worked with his E-rate consultant at VST Services to release a Form 470 and RFP for lit fiber.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

A $500 round-trip flight to Anchorage or Fairbanks for teacher training, or a robotics tournament, or a college visit, is a hard sell for districts struggling with the impact of a statewide recession. More bandwidth, of course, is always better. Roughly 14 percent of children statewide live in poverty.

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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? Playful Learning: Games and the Future of STEM - Danny Fain, Teacher in Residence Redefining STEM Rubrics for the 21’st Century: It’s all about mastery!

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Educator Innovator

JANUARY 6, 2014

Every term youth at DSIL do a course called Project where they create an object or a report through self-directed inquiry. It is developing at the same rate as maker programming in Philadelphia and at other Learning Labs. There is no grading system and no grade levels, only three categories: New Learner, Intermediate, and Advanced.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 28, 2021

Sponsored by Advancement Courses and The Teacher Career Coach Course. Instead of schools being the place to get treatment for their needs, they often have been viewed through a lens of academic or behavior problems which, at times, has even led to the criminalization of Black and brown youth at disproportionate rates.

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Educator Innovator

JANUARY 6, 2014

Every term youth at DSIL do a course called Project where they create an object or a report through self-directed inquiry. It is developing at the same rate as maker programming in Philadelphia and at other Learning Labs. There is no grading system and no grade levels, only three categories: New Learner, Intermediate, and Advanced.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Today, students frequently work in digital environments to read course materials, take tests and complete assignments. More than 4 out of 10 college students wind up in remedial math or English courses, and those that do are even less likely than other students to finish college.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

Not this specific conversation, of course, but ones like it. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, public school enrollment in the United States had been trending downward , thanks to birth-rate declines and more restrictive immigration policies, but the decreases rarely exceeded half a percentage point. Huh uh,” Kunz said, “none of those.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

The big ed-tech news this week is, of course, that Betsy DeVos is considering allowing schools to use federal funds to arm teachers and staff. ” CPS is, of course, the Chicago Public Schools. ” Susan Crawrford argues “Why Universities Need ‘Public Interest Technology’ Courses.” Sounds legit.

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

” At least the e-cigarette company (which targets teens) offers a social-emotional learning curriculum, right? ” Via the AP : “ District of Columbia Mayor Muriel E. Via The New York Post : “Education department investigating high school’s online courses.” Because of course.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

UC Berkeley says it will remove online course content in response to a Department of Justice assertion that the materials violate the ADA as they are not fully accessible to those with disabilities. Via Education Week’s Market Brief : “Test Vendors Weigh In On Future of PARCC.” Accreditation and Certification.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

Via Education Week : “ E-Rate , Other Universal-Service Funds to Be Transferred to U.S. Via The New York Times : New York governor “ Cuomo to Give Colleges $7 Million for Courses in Prisons.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Post, Sources Say.” ” (State and Local) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Via Campus Technology : “ AP Exam Pass Rates Rise Even as Participation Doubles.” Acumen “senior innovation associate” writes about +Acumen in Edsurge : “The Flip Side of Abysmal MOOC Completion Rates ? E-Sports Make A Play For The Big Ten.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ”). .

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Not Net Neutrality, but another potential FCC move – ending the E-Rate program. ” Apparently it’s all Audre Lorde ’s fault, because of course it is. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “ Robots will replace teachers by 2027 ,” Futurism predicts.

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

.” Via The New York Times : “ New Mexico Outlaws School ‘Lunch Shaming’ ” Via Buzzfeed : “ California Shows The Rest Of The Country How To Boost Kindergarten Vaccination Rates.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “How Open E-Credentials Will Transform Higher Education.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 10, 2018

Via Edsurge : “Why the FCC ’s E-rate Makes Funding High-Speed Internet a Slow Crawl.” “The Saga of Ohio ’s Embattled E-School Is Coming to an End,” writes Education Week’s Ben Herold. ” His son-in-law is Jared Kushner , of course. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Via CNET : “ Verizon to pay $17M to resolve FCC, Justice E-Rate probes.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “Teachers Are Finding Innovative Ways to Use Robots in Class,” claims Education Week. ” More via Buzzfeed. The Business of Student Loans. Via Reuters : “ SoFi withdraws U.S.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

“ Education Department’s inspector general labels Western Governors as a correspondence-course provider, seeks reimbursement of $713 million in aid and may broadly threaten competency-based education ,” Inside HIgher Ed reports. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Accreditations and Certifications and Competencies.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Of course, the US can’t let the UK lead for too long when it comes to terrible people and terrible ideas in education. ” “Special bracelets” are, of course, ed-tech. Via Techcrunch : “ URB-E ’s launching a scooter sharing network at college campuses and hotels.” Private city.

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Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

Via The Next Web : “ Facebook is letting Groups create online learning courses – what could possibly go wrong?” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The e-book subscription service has raised $21.45 Via Venture Beat : “The AI Buddy Project is building an assistant to support kids of military families.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Via NPR : “ Betsy DeVos ’ Graduation Rate Mistake.” DeVos, of course, was a stakeholder in the student loan startup SoFi. ” Via The Consumerist : “New Chairman Orders FCC To Abandon Court Defense Of Rule Limiting Prison Phone Rates.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Think again.”

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

Trump’s budget, of course, cuts $9.2 ” The story contains some machinations at the Department of Education in which the White Hous e tried to fire a Jeb Bush-supporting staffer. ” asks Chester E. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Duolingo has raised $25 million in Series E funding from Drive Capital.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

” Via Real Clear Education : “Connecting Schools to the Future: Rethinking E-Rate.” Scammers advertise phony job opportunities on college employment websites, and/or students receive e-mails on their school accounts recruiting them for fictitious positions. “Can robotics teach problem solving to students?”

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Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

” Trump’s favorite techie is, of course, Peter Thiel. Via The Chicago Tribune : “ Chance the Rapper writes $1 million check to CPS as a ‘call to action’ ” “The History of the Future of E-rate ” by me. ” New Nanodegrees from Udacity : Digital Marketing and Robotics.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Here is venture capital well spent: “ Coursera Promotes Its ‘Affordable Online Courses’ With New TV Ad Spots ,” says Class Central. Also via The Chronicle : “The University of California at Berkeley has reinstated an undergraduate course about the history of Palestine that it suspended.”

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Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “More than 50 groups have signed a letter demanding that Candice E. ” Of course none of this – not Africa is a Country’s excellent reporting nor Peg Tyre’s recent story in the NYT – stops Nicholas Kristof from touting Bridge as a “solution.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Via The Verge : “ Juul has 60 days to prove it can keep its e-cigs away from kids, FDA warns.” ’” “Many College Courses Are Either Overloaded or Underfilled,” writes Jeffrey Young in Edsurge. ” (Also from Hill : “Timeline of e-Literate Coverage of Blackboard Learn Ultra.”).

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

” The Trump Administration is calling it “ restoring Internet freedom ,” because of f **g course. “5 Reasons Why e-textbooks in Egypt Would Be Inequitable” by Maha Bali. ” Via NBC News : “How to Thrive: Arianna Huffington Launches E-Learning Series.” ” asks Jade E.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

” Via Techcrunch : “ Amazon opens its internal machine learning courses to all for free.” ” “Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019,” says Edsurge. Via Mashable : “The e-waste nightmare lurking in your kid’s toy box.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “How Much Hollywood Glitz Should Colleges Use in Their Online Courses ?” Speaking of Hollywood Glitz, Variety reports that “ Kevin Spacey ’s Online Acting Course Pulled by MasterClass.” Publishers love this, of course. ” No.

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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

“New report calls out NCAA for saying that black athletes graduate at higher rates than other black students, when that’s not true at the top conferences,” says Inside Higher Ed. Perhaps it should go in the “robots” section. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Go, School Sports Team!

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2016

That’s Betsy DeVos , of course, and Social Finance a.k.a. Via Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill : “ UT Austin and SMOCs: What these synchronous courses look like and cost.” ” “ Artificial Intelligence Could Help Colleges Better Plan What Courses They Should Offer,” says Edsurge.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2010. Um, they do.) Despite a few anecdotes, they’re really not.).

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Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

Via E&E News : “ Cabinet heads told to praise Paris exit. Via Techcrunch : “ Udacity and Google launch free career courses for interview prep, resume writing and more.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Pacific Standard : “ Suicide Rates Have Increased Across the U.S.

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Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

Via Education Week : “ FCC Chair Moves to Block E-Rate Funds for Companies Deemed ‘Security Risk’ ” (State and Local) Education Politics. Via the AP : “ Wyoming begins path to computer science courses in schools.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” asks Edsurge.

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