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in title, tags, annotations or urlTechnology in Education: An Overview - Education Week - 28 views
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$3 billion per year on digital content.
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he booming ed-tech industry, with corporate titans and small startups alike vying for a slice of an $8 billion-plus ye
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to even the most rural and remote schools.
The Overselling of Ed Tech - Alfie Kohn - 83 views
Why Ed Tech Is Not Transforming How Teachers Teach - Education Week - 78 views
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"A mountain of evidence indicates that educators have been painfully slow to use technology to change and improve the ways they teach." Thoughtful piece examining the reasons for slow transformation.
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"A mountain of evidence indicates that educators have been painfully slow to use technology to change and improve the ways they teach." Thoughtful piece examining the reasons for slow transformation.
20 Google Apps activities for classroom innovation | Ditch That Textbook - 146 views
The 3 Orthodoxies of Educational Technology | Technology and Learning | InsideHigherEd - 52 views
Ed Tech Must Embrace Stronger Student Privacy Laws -- THE Journal - 21 views
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Adoption of these technologies has raised significant questions about student privacy because vendors are storing personal student data on servers located outside of a district's physical jurisdiction.
Inside the School Silicon Valley Thinks Will Save Education | WIRED - 9 views
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"AUTHOR: ISSIE LAPOWSKY. ISSIE LAPOWSKY DATE OF PUBLICATION: 05.04.15. 05.04.15 TIME OF PUBLICATION: 7:00 AM. 7:00 AM INSIDE THE SCHOOL SILICON VALLEY THINKS WILL SAVE EDUCATION Click to Open Overlay Gallery Students in the youngest class at the Fort Mason AltSchool help their teacher, Jennifer Aguilar, compile a list of what they know and what they want to know about butterflies. CHRISTIE HEMM KLOK/WIRED SO YOU'RE A parent, thinking about sending your 7-year-old to this rogue startup of a school you heard about from your friend's neighbor's sister. It's prospective parent information day, and you make the trek to San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood. You walk up to the second floor of the school, file into a glass-walled conference room overlooking a classroom, and take a seat alongside dozens of other parents who, like you, feel that public schools-with their endless bubble-filled tests, 38-kid classrooms, and antiquated approach to learning-just aren't cutting it. At the same time, you're thinking: this school is kind of weird. On one side of the glass is a cheery little scene, with two teachers leading two different middle school lessons on opposite ends of the room. But on the other side is something altogether unusual: an airy and open office with vaulted ceilings, sunlight streaming onto low-slung couches, and rows of hoodie-wearing employees typing away on their computers while munching on free snacks from the kitchen. And while you can't quite be sure, you think that might be a robot on wheels roaming about. Then there's the guy who's standing at the front of the conference room, the school's founder. Dressed in the San Francisco standard issue t-shirt and jeans, he's unlike any school administrator you've ever met. But the more he talks about how this school uses technology to enhance and individualize education, the more you start to like what he has to say. And so, if you are truly fed up with the school stat
How to Embrace & Implement Ed Tech in 2015 | Scholar Space - 49 views
Horizon Report 2014 - New Media Consortium - 4 views
Ten Popular Ed Tech Tools That Were Updated This Summer - 150 views
Ed Tech Challenge - 62 views
NEOtech Conference - Home - 21 views
ISTE 2013 Attendees used as marketing tools. Shame on Microsoft. - Holt Think: Ed, Creativity, Tech, Administration - 84 views
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"If you were one of the 10,000 ISTE 2013 attendees in San Antonio this past June, congratulations.Along with all that juicy professional development, you received a free Microsoft RT Tablet just for showing up. You also were taken for a ride and you were used as Microsoft Marketing Tools for a failed product. "