Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” ProPublica looks at age discrimination at IBM , worth considering I think as part of a larger industry worship of youth and “ innovation ”: “Cutting ‘Old Heads’ at IBM.”

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MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

They decided to “personalize” learning for every child, which means that they tailored lessons to each student’s needs, interests and learning pace. They gave each student access to technology that helps teachers customize their lessons. What is personalized learning?

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 29, 2023

With more and more individuals gaining access to the internet globally, online content consumption has manifolded. On the flip side, online publishing has taken the industry by storm. The edits will automatically reflect in the distributed eBooks, and this will ensure that students have access to up-to-date information.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

They decided to “personalize” learning for every child, which means that they tailored lessons to each student’s needs, interests and learning pace. They gave each student access to technology that helps teachers customize their lessons. Related: Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work?

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edWeb.net

JUNE 23, 2021

But analytics tools, like CatchOn and Gaggle, helped schools and districts during the pandemic to aggregate data to monitor how learners fared digitally. Educational leaders and teachers have improved processes to improve instruction, learning and institutional systems. Join the Community.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This year’s 6th most-read story focuses on the predictions educators and industry experts made for learning in 2022. As we wrapped up 2020, we thought for sure that 2021 might bring us a reprieve from pandemic learning. This will inevitably result in increased comprehension and productivity in student learning.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

And I won’t dwell too much on the military either – how military industrial complexes point us towards technological industrial complexes (and to ed-tech industrial complexes in turn). You can’t opt of having your cafeteria purchases, Internet usage, dorm room access, fitness center habits tracked.

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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. There are a variety of reasons for this: language barriers, lack of Internet access, incompatible devices, lack of training.

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Hack Education

MAY 4, 2018

Via Techcrunch : “Thousands of academics spurn Nature ’s new paid-access Machine Learning journal.” Leap Innovations has received $14 million from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to “introduce or expand personalized learning instructional models” in the Chicago Public Schools.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

Lots of goings-on this week in the loan industry. The New Yorker profiles Sphero ’s learn-to-code toy for kids but says dumb things about Seymour Papert’s Logo so I’m not sure why I’m even linking to this. Via Techcrunch : “ Lilwil ’s personalized learning engine teaches teachers how to teach.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

A bill in Missouri would end tenure for all new faculty hires starting in 2018 and require more student access to information about the job market for majors. million gift from the Charles Koch Foundation and Koch Industries , a well-known opponent of government spending on things like public education (among other things).

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

“The Growing Role of Technology in Personalized Learning ,” according to KQED’s Mindshift. “ VR is gaining ground in the academic world and the 3D industry,” says Techcrunch , so it must be true. Most certainly food for thought touting the power of “ learning analytics.”

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