Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

He just doesn’t think our current university systems and edtech solutions will get us there. The LINK Lab is a hub international scholars exploring the digitization of knowledge and learning and how this process impacts education. He points to the learning management system as an example.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

How might a sociology class analyze human interactions and behaviors on social media?). WHAT DO PROFESSORS WANT FROM LEARNING ANALYTICS? Watson will also be able to generate “concept clusters” for learners—showing them how what they’re learning relates to other points they’ve studied.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2016

Florida Virtual School (FLVS), a statewide public school district in the state of Florida and international provider of education products and services, has selected D2L , a global learning technology provider, to deploy its Brightspace platform as the district’s new learning management system (LMS).

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 14, 2016

In recent dealmaking news, Barnes & Noble Education acquired LoudCloud Systems and ed-tech startup Volley Labs raised $2.3 Dallas-based LoudCloud’s platforms include a competency-based courseware platform, a learning-analytics platform and services, an eReading product, and a learning management system.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

Baker, associate professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of the new Penn Center for Learning Analytics. Related: Despite its high-tech profile, Summit charter network makes teachers, not computers, the heart of personalized learning.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 25, 2016

based Thrivist said its platform “enables schools to develop, deliver, and manage online learning and leverage learning analytics to improve outcomes,” according to the company, which notes that software is offered via a software-as-a-service model and is being used in more than 25 school districts. Franklin, Tenn.-based

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MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

The computer system does this by constantly assessing how a particular student answers questions and what kind of lesson most engages that student. But for that concept to work, a child must spend a lot of time on the computer, feeding the system with data that the software uses to improve itself.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 14, 2023

The movie Her with Joaquin Phoenix, where he dates and falls in love with an AI operating system is shocking. AI in Schools and Classrooms Edweek shared in a 2020 article , In education, AI can be found in learning analytic platforms, online courseware, voice assistants, and support structures within other apps.

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Hack Education

APRIL 7, 2017

The lyrics in the latter, which some argue presage social media – okay, sure – but perhaps more aptly simply reflect someone who was active in (or at least aware of) the discussion forums and chatrooms of the 1990s: I scan my computer looking 4 a site.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

It may be the hardware or the operating system (OS), even a web browser or other underlying software, as long as the program code is executed in it. Arguably, one of the best candidates is the learning management system. The LMS has long positioned itself as an “operating system,” of sorts for higher education.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” I’ll save you a click: Arthur Graesser, a professor in the Department of Psychology and the Institute of Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis; Timothy Renick, a senior vice president for student success at Georgia State University; and Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code. The first: high school for everyone.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

All this happened in the larger context of news from the US school system itself. Social Media, Campus Activism, and Free Speech. Learning to Code. Education Data and Learning Analytics. Social Media: Adoption and Crackdown. Standardized Testing. Beyond the MOOC. The Compulsion for Data.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

So we must, I think, look at the more insidious ways in which various technologies are slowly altering our notions of knowledge, expertise, and education (as practices, as institutions, as systems) – and ask who’s invested in the various futures that education technology purports to offer. Learning to Code. Beyond the MOOC.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2018

“ Are K–12 data systems ready for AI? Apologies for linking to Reason : “ University of Virginia Hires ‘Social Sentinel’ to Monitor Students’ Social Media Posts.” . “ Can Big Data Change a Wicked School Truancy Problem? ” asks Edsurge. ” asks Mindshift.

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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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Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

Ever wonder how stories promoted by ‘thought leaders’ on social media get selected? Tech devices won't fix our education system | Lockport Union Sun & Journal → Former Education Secretary Arne Duncan recently issued a plea for greater student access to high-tech tools. "This

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

A ransomware attack at a school system in Maine. I delete all my old social media now on a regular and ongoing basis. This software would track and analyze the social media and digital activity of visa holders in order to identify those who might be “high risk.” million students.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “An Education Department plan to begin cutting large debt collection firms out of the student loan system is on hold after Congress warned against move.” Via Wired : “How Silicon Valley Fuels an Informal Caste System.” ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Via Alternet : “ Gavin Grimm Wants To Fix The Education System That Failed Him.” ” When you hear someone invoke New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina as a model, do remember what happened to all the Black teachers … Via the AP : “ Philadelphia moves to retake control of city school system.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. Indeed, DonorsChoose.org expects teachers to leverage their social media presence in order to fundraise for supplies for their classrooms. Green Imperial Pigeon.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

Via The Atlantic : “Two radically different bills aim to overhaul [ Detroit ’s] beleaguered school system. Why Don’t All School Systems Do This?” It was one of two social media messages – the other a Twitter photo of Tunsil smoking marijuana through a gas mark – that were posted during the NFL draft.

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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. “ Key Tensions in the Field of Learning Analytics ” by Bodong Chen.

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