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Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014: Data and Privacy
Part 7 in my Top 10 Trends of 2014 seriesIt’s the fourth year in a row that I’ve chosen “data and privacy” as one of the most important ed-tech trends. (See 2013, 2012, 2011.)I’m not sure if I expected...
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Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014: The Indie Web
Part 8 in my Top 10 Trends of 2014 seriesThis is an aspirational post. After some 35,000 words in a series that has been pretty critical about the state of education technology in 2014, I want to write...
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Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014: Social Justice
Part 9 in my Top 10 Trends of 2014 series“Education is the civil rights issue of our time,” you’ll often hear politicians and education reform types say.I maintain that civil rights remain the civil...
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Hack Education Weekly News
Education Law and Politics132 children and 9 staff died in a Pakistani Taliban attack on an army-run school in Peshawar– the “deadliest single attack in the group’s history.” (Globally, terrorist...
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Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014: #Fail
Part 10 in my Top 10 Trends of 2014 series2015 will mark the 25th anniversary of the first one-to-one laptop program. In 1990, the Methodist Ladies’ College in Melbourne, Australia gave all its...
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Competency-Based Education: A Primer
This post first appeared on Educating Modern LearnersWhat is Competency-Based Education?“Competency-based education” (CBE) is being hailed by some as a way to rethink education — to save money and to...
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Protecting Student Privacy through More Transparency
This post first appeared on Educating Modern LearnersAs schools in the Northern Hemisphere are poised to kick off the new school year, they’re likely sending home a flurry of permission slips for...
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Is Twitter the Best Option for Online Professional Development?
This post first appeared on Educating Modern LearnersTwitter for EduIn recent years Twitter has become a very popular tool for educators, with some calling the social media platform "The Best...
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Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014
1. Buzzwords2. The Business of Ed-tech3. School and "Skills"4. MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education5. Competencies and Certificates6. The Common Core State Standards7. Data and Privacy8. The Indie...
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Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014: The Common Core State Standards
Part 6 in my Top 10 Trends of 2014 seriesLast year, I opened my look at the trend I then called “standards” by looking at the number of edits to the Wikipedia entry for the Common Core State Standards....
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Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014: Data and Privacy
Part 7 in my Top 10 Trends of 2014 seriesIt’s the fourth year in a row that I’ve chosen “data and privacy” as one of the most important ed-tech trends. (See 2013, 2012, 2011.)I’m not sure if I expected...
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Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014: The Indie Web
Part 8 in my Top 10 Trends of 2014 seriesThis is an aspirational post. After some 35,000 words in a series that has been pretty critical about the state of education technology in 2014, I want to write...
View ArticleIs Twitter the Best Option for Online Professional Development?
This post first appeared on Educating Modern LearnersTwitter for EduIn recent years Twitter has become a very popular tool for educators, with some calling the social media platform "The Best...
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Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014: Social Justice
Part 9 in my Top 10 Trends of 2014 series“Education is the civil rights issue of our time,” you’ll often hear politicians and education reform types say.I maintain that civil rights remain the civil...
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Education Law and Politics132 children and 9 staff died in a Pakistani Taliban attack on an army-run school in Peshawar– the “deadliest single attack in the group’s history.” (Globally, terrorist...
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Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014: #Fail
Part 10 in my Top 10 Trends of 2014 series2015 will mark the 25th anniversary of the first one-to-one laptop program. In 1990, the Methodist Ladies’ College in Melbourne, Australia gave all its...
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Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014
1. Buzzwords2. The Business of Ed-tech3. School and "Skills"4. MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education5. Competencies and Certificates6. The Common Core State Standards7. Data and Privacy8. The Indie...
View ArticleThe Pigeons of Ed-Tech
“Edward L. Thorndike won and John Dewey lost.”– Ellen Condliffe LagemannAs part of his graduate work, B. F. Skinner invented what’s now known as “the Skinner Box.” His “operant conditioning chamber”...
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Education Law and PoliticsThe Chicago Sun-Times’ Lauren FitzPatrick reports that “Companies that Chicago Board of Education member Deborah Quazzo has an interest in have seen the business they get from...
View ArticleTop Ed-Tech Startups of 2014
Much like my annual look at the “Top Ed-Tech Trends,” in previous years I’ve selected what I thought were the “Top Ed-Tech Startups.” (See 2011, 2012, 2013.) It’s something I started doing in 2010...
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