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Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2013: MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs
Part 4 of my Top 10 Ed-Tech Trends of 2013 seriesBarely a week has gone by this year without some MOOC-related news. Much like last year, massive open online courses have dominated ed-tech...
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Hack Education Weekly News: Chicago Public Schools Ditch inBloom
Education Law and PoliticsMichael McVey, a school superintendent in Steubenville, Ohio has been indicted on charges of obstructing justice and evidence-tampering for his role in the cover-up of the...
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Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2013: Coding and "Making"
Part 5 of my Top 10 Ed-Tech Trends of 2013 SeriesIn memory of Jeffrey McManus, founder of CodeLesson and friendAs with all of the trends I’m covering in my year-end review, neither the “Learn to Code”...
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Technology, Progressive Education, and Diane Ravitch's Reign of Error
Through today, you can download a Kindle version of Gary Stager and Sylvia Martinez’s new book Invent to Learnfor free. You should do so. Really, you should buy the book. (Amazon Affiliate link) Hailed...
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Hack Education Weekly News: PISA Scores Confirm that [Fill in the Blank with...
My apologies for the lateness and lightness of this post. But I’ve been in Paris this past week and WiFi access has been tricky and the red wine abundant. I visited both La Porte d’Enfer and Les...
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Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2013: Hardware
Part 6 of my Top 10 Ed-Tech Trends of 2013 seriesWe spend a lot of time in ed-tech talking about the Internet, about the Web, about software. But it all relies on hardware. And I think this was a year...
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Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2013: Data and Privacy
Part 7 of my Top 10 Ed-Tech Trends of 2013 seriesThis is the third year in a row that I've chosen "data" as one of the "top trends" in ed-tech. (See 2011, 2012) If you're looking for a sunnier view of...
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Hack Education Weekly News: Pearson's $7.7 Million Settlement, the "Hour of...
The "Hour of Code"According to Code.org, the organization that’s spearheaded this week’s push to teach more students computer science, over 13.7 million students have “learned an hour of code” this...
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Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2013: The Battle for "Open"
Part 8 of my Top 10 Ed-Tech Trends of 2013 seriesAs with the trend of “data,” “open” is something I’ve touched upon in each of my annual year-end reviews (in 2011 and 2012. Again, I recommend reading...
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Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2013: What Counts "For Credit"
Part 9 of my Top 10 Ed-Tech Trends of 2013 seriesThis trend is one of the few this year that I haven’t explicitly covered in years past: what’s happening to “the credit” – the credit hour,...
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Hack Education Weekly News: Big Bucks for DreamBox Learning, Knewton, Khan...
Quite a busy week as everyone crams their year-end news into the final working days of the year…Education PoliticsThis is how much your kid’s school budget has been cut.New Jersey governor Chris...
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Hack Education Weekly News: Textbook-Delivery Drones
The US government is open for business again. (Well, I doubt it ever really closed "for business," but you know what I mean.) The Supreme Court is weighing another affirmative action case. It looks...
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Hack Education Weekly News: Coursera Turns 2
In this week's education news, Coursera turns 2. Apple holds its fall press event. Chartbeat, an education news non-profit, launches. Rumor has it that NewSchools Venture Fund's CEO will join the...
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Hack Education Weekly News: RIP Edna Krabappel
In this week's education news, MOOCs. Facebook and MOOCs. MOOCs and learning hubs. Bruno Latour teaches a MOOC. Penn State settles with 26 young men who were sexually abused by former football coach...
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The Education Apocalypse #opened13
Notes and slides from my keynote today at Open Education 2013. I shared the stage with David Kernohan, and we were tasked by David Wiley to offer a critique of open education. I talked about the...
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Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2013: The Business of Ed-Tech
The last post in my year-end review of ed-tech. Top 10 Trends and so on. This one, as the headline suggests, covers "the business of ed-tech": all the funding rounds, acquisitions, IPOs, closures,...
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Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2013
The list of the trends I've chosen as "the top" in 2013. Data. MOOCs. Hardware. Politics. Standards. "Making." "Open." Credentialing. The business of ed-tech. What a year. (Much like previous years. So...
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Now that I've finished my year-end review of the most important ed-tech trends, it's time for my year-end reminder that Hack Education is advertising and venture-capital free. Please consider a...
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Hack Education Weekly News: A Week Without MOOC News!
A quiet week with the Xmas holidays, but a few notable items particularly in the courts and not a goddamned thing about MOOCs. Woohoo! Victory. I should note here, for those that read Hack Education...
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Top 10 Ed-Tech Startups of 2013
Choosing the top education startups is never an easy task. Since I've started composing a list of the best from a single year, I've always given myself these artificial constraints: it has to be a...
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