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The History of the Future of Learning Objects and Intelligent Machines
This talk was delivered at MIT for Justin Reich’s Comparative Media Studies class “Learning, Media, and Technology.” The full slide deck is available here.Thank you for inviting me to speak to your...
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(National) Education Politics US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos launched a “rethink schools” tour. Here are some reports from her travels:Via Chalkbeat: “What is Betsy DeVos’s ‘rethink school’...
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(National) Education Politics “The Trump Administration Has Revoked A Federal Directive On Campus Rape,” Buzzfeed reports. More on the decision in The New York Times.US Secretary of Education Betsy...
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(National) Education Politics “President Trump Earmarks $200 Million in Federal Grants for STEM, Computer Science Programs,” says Edsurge, later swooning that“Google, Facebook, Amazon Among Tech Titans...
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(National) Education Politics Ivanka Trump with an op-ed in The New York Post: “Why we need to start teaching tech in Kindergarten.” (Spoiler alert: because five-year-olds need coding skills so they...
View ArticleWhat Ivanka Trump Knows about Ed-Tech
Inside Higher Ed asked a group of “experts”“what should Ivanka Trump read in order to learn about education technology?” I submitted an answer but it was not what they were looking for. So I’m...
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(National) Education Politics “What Ivanka Trump Knows about Ed-Tech” by me. Thoughts from other “experts” in Inside Higher Ed. Also by me: “The Ivanka Trump Ed-Tech Industry Network.”“Even Pokémon Go...
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(National) Education Politics From the White House Press Office: “President Donald J. Trump Proclaims October 15 through October 21, 2017, as National Character Counts Week.” The irony.“The U.S....
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(National) Education Politics “Assessing Betsy DeVos’ Rollback on Disability Rights” by Pacific Standard’s David Perry.“The 72 OSERS Documents Rescinded by Betsy deVos” – by Liz Ditz.Via Inside Higher...
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New Book: The Monsters of Education Technology 4
The fourth book in my “Monsters of Education Technology” series is out. As with the other books in the series, it’s a collection of talks I’ve given through the course of the year.E-book versions are...
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(National) Education Politics “The Education of Betsy DeVos” – a profile of the Secretary of Education in Politico Magazine.Via The Chronicle of Higher Education: “DeVosFalsely Suggests That Student...
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(National) Education Politics Listen, folks (particularly educators). If you’re going to decry “fake news,” then you best not be sharing it. If you’re going to talk about the importance of digital...
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(National) Education Politics “15 Ways Taylor Swift’s Lyrics Solve Education Policy’s Most Pressing Issues” is, no doubt, the most godawful white lady thing I’ve seen this week in education news. And...
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(National) Education Politics “The Republican War on College,” by The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson.“Tax bill reflects rift between many Republicans and higher education,” The Washington Post reports. And...
View ArticleThe Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology
Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2017: The Stories We’ve Been ToldAt the end of every year since I founded Hack Education in 2010, I’ve reviewed what I think are the most important and influential trends in...
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(National) Education Politics Via Chalkbeat: “DeVos calls America still ‘a nation at risk,’ cheers GOP tax plan.”As I type this up, the Senate has not yet voted, but it does appear to have enough votes...
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Education Technology and 'Fake News'
This is part one of my annual look at the year’s “top ed-tech stories”Last year, I started this series – my annual review of the year in education technology– with an article on wishful thinking. It...
View ArticleEducation Technology, Betsy DeVos, and the Innovation Gospel
This is part two of my annual look at the year’s “top ed-tech stories”I confess: most of my social media networks are focused on education. I’m friends with educators. I follow educators and education...
View ArticleEducation Technology and the Business of Student Debt
This is part three of my annual look at the year’s “top ed-tech stories”As an education technology writer, I’m often chastised for considering student loan companies as part of my analysis. Certain...
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(National) Education Politics Late last Friday, the US Senate did pass its version of a tax reform bill, one with scribbles in the margins and handwritten addenda because everyone now thinks “move fast...
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