Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Rachel Davenport, a senior lecturer at Texas State University, has taught so many large classes that she jokes she has trouble readjusting to a small seminar room. That means we both get to learn, not just them. I actually think getting to say, "I don't know, let's look it up," is collaborative—we're learning together.

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Online learning, or the teaching formerly knows as “distance learning” Will this keep growing? There’s now a movement to teach humanities seminars online. Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population. Educational technology trends. This rising tide could pause.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik. FRAMINGHAM, Mass.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

Here in Connecticut, we have been watching closely as Maine experiments with proficiency-based learning. Related: As states push for new learning, some parents and kids feel left behind. However, skeptics suspect proficiency-based learning is a mere rebrand of previous unproven reform efforts. Known by the U.S.

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Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

This keynote was delivered today at the Irish Learning Technology Association's annual conference, EdTech2016, in Dublin. I’m not sure we talk often enough about technology-enhanced learning in these terms – as a political not merely pedagogical practice. The full slidedeck is available here. To devise new rules.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

A single mom in middle America could learn to code from Google instructor. Unless we carefully examine where we put the paywalls and how we cultivate diverse student bodies in our online learning experiences, we risk transposing the same patterns of inequity that have plagued in-person education into our digital classrooms.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

“But adaptive-learning technologies are bullsh*t, c’mon,” one of us would say. I see your perspective, but think about it this way,” another might respond, “Your dystopian visions of tech mean less when you think about the millions of students who aren’t learning now. If you’re an interested student, you can learn more and.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

A must-read on Trump University from Ars Technica : “Trump University and the art of the get-rich seminar.” ” From the press release : “ Learning Machine and MIT Media Lab Release Blockchain Technology for Educational Credentials.” The video learning company has previously raised $1.57 Never change.

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