The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

What can we learn from library innovators and innovators from other sectors and industries that will help us shape the future we want and that our communities aspire towards? Participants are encouraged to use #library2016 and #librariesofthefuture on their social media posts leading up to and during the event. See you online!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Participants are encouraged to use #library2019 and #libraryid on their social media posts leading up to and during the event. and BS in Industrial Engineering/Human Computer Interaction from University of Alabama and North Carolina A+T State University, respectively. She has a Ph.D.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 20, 2015

like some states and districts, we created open access textbooks and taught teachers how to curate open educational resources (OER), thus freeing up textbook monies for other purposes? (kind of like Iowa BIG in Cedar Rapids).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Platforms provide the substructure for the “gig economy” and the “sharing economy”; they’re the economic engine of social media; they’re the architecture of the “attention economy” and the inspiration for claims about the “end of ownership.” Subscribe to their blog.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. ” “ OER , CARE , Stewardship, and the Commons” by “Econproph” Jim Luke. Government Will Travel to Latin America.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

” From the Bloomberg Editorial Board : “A Raw Deal From Betsy DeVos ” – “ Rolling back regulations on the for-profit college industry will cause the public pain.” And there’s more on regulating the industry (or ya know, not) in the national politics section above.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

was named in an investigation by The Associated Press last year for sharing racially charged content on social media.” Via The Guardian : “ Trump bans agencies from ‘providing updates on social media or to reporters’ ” This ban has been targeted at scientists at the EPA and USDA in particular.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” Ref Rodriguez, like most of the current members of the LAUSD school board, has strong financial backing from the charter school industry. IBM wants us to believe that Watson is incredibly powerful – powerful enough, even, to search 1000 OER. Via The LA Times : “ L.A. More LAUSD news in the legal section below.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Also by me : “The Ivanka Trump Ed-Tech Industry Network.” Via Techcrunch : “ Kudos wants to be a gentle introduction to social media sharing for kids.” Via Techcrunch : “ Kudos wants to be a gentle introduction to social media sharing for kids.” (National) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

Meanwhile on Campus… The New York Times on “How the Parkland Students Got So Good at Social Media ” – a really important corrective, I’d argue, to that “digital native” silliness. Edsurge on the business of OER. Everything about our lives has moved beyond the industrial era.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

” The tech industry is still bullish on the business of tech training nonetheless. ” “How Social Media Can Help Teach Good Writing,” according to Edsurge. The company is co-founded by Nick Ducoff, formerly of the OER textbook startup Boundless. The Business of Job Training.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

Via The Washington Post : “There’s a well-funded campus industry behind the Ann Coulter incident.” “ OER-Enabled Pedagogy ” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. “ Social-Emotional Learning Is the Rage in K–12. ” The attack was at Transylvania University.

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MAY 27, 2016

But you’re full of fallacy yourself if you think that’s going to stop me from making critiques about this industry. Testing, Testing… “ Common Core testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on social media,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. Good grief.

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Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

Meanwhile on Campus… “ Here’s How Higher Education Dies – A futurist says the industry may have nowhere to go but down. ” The head of the OECD ’s education division, Andreas Schleicher, writes in The Hill about “Educating students for the fourth industrial revolution.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

I’ve never seen an education story receive quite as much attention from non-educators on social media. This is really similar to the work I do mapping the relationships – financial and otherwise – among various players in the ed-tech industry. It was a disaster. Does this make me a legit journalist?

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