Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

At the turn of this century, adventurous faculty ventured out into cyberspace on their own, propelled by their own talent, accompanied merely by a laptop and internet access. Not until the health crisis forced campuses to close physical classrooms did so many colleges see the cost of their failure to act sooner.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2021

Then came the Internet, along with alternative news sources, social media, podcasts, blogs and the rest. Shift emphasis from the current industrial era model of higher education focused on organizations and production to the digital age concerned with consumers and consumption. and 64 percent of the radio stations in operation.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Policymakers in Tennessee and Texas, for example, have explicitly encouraged the use of technology in developmental education reform. In general, colleges are using many of the same technologies in developmental education as they do to provide instruction and supports for college-level students.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Housing is not always available, let alone stable access to food, a ride to and from school and the other conditions that have to be met for a student to really sink into learning, like internet access and a dedicated space for homework. The absentee rates in San Diego — where, in 2021-2022, 30.4 This can cause depression or defiance.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2016

I realized the potential of using the Internet every day—that there could be fewer limitations on what we could do. Failure also motivates me. When I say we risk failure, I mean we’re trying our absolute best. But the tool of a notebook, the tools of creating a poster board—they weren’t allowing me to reach all of my students.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

suffer on the no-internet side of the digital divide , according to the Federal Communications Commission. As educators, it is important that we increase our level of urgency and pivot quickly to prevent loss in the progress we’ve made over the past two decades toward more-equitable education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2019

Dougherty had spent most of his professional career publishing books about software and the internet. Failure” only happens when makers stop trying; otherwise, making is about iteration, experimentation and perseverance. Failure only happens when you quit. So the maker movement started with adults.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Yet there are eight education technology startups that currently list the firm as an investor. That sentiment about education is common—and by now even cliché—among typical Silicon Valley techie-types with a predisposition toward “disrupting” the establishment. That’s the kind of culture Danner hails from.

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2019

The trend has also followed increasing amounts of technologies in the higher-ed space—and the privacy concerns these new tools bring. But I think a lot of the success or failure of whether there is a CPO or not, will depend on institutional culture and the bent of the senior administration.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Ken Bain, the author of “What the Best College Teachers Do,” talks about this a lot—this idea that failure is a part of learning. So there should be failure in all of our classes. Too many of us take it for granted that students are going to have access to the internet. [Or And then I get feedback and I try again.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

At Oakland Unified in California, about 3,000 of the district’s roughly 36,000 students are taking online summer classes, according to Kelleth Chinn, the instructional technology and assessment coordinator for the district. Half continued to grade student work, either through letter grades or a pass/fail system that may include incompletes.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Computers were still housed in labs or on carts, but one-to-one computing and internet accessibility were hot topics. Here’s a look at some of edtech’s notable successes and failures that might shed light on the decade to come.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Unsurprisingly, concerns over the expected “COVID slide” began to take shape almost as quickly as the emergency response plans, with the learning loss projected to be especially dire for those students already at risk of failure. As school moved online,” Altman notes that in some areas, “as many as a third of students stopped attending class.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

In some cases the very technologies that were intended to improve writing, like automatic-essay grading software, have backfired by encouraging a kind of paint-by-numbers approach to writing. Learning to write is a process that requires failure, that requires trying things over again. But Warner is not anti-tech.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Previously a consultant and policy adviser to Michael Gove, the United Kingdom’s former Secretary of Education, Martin first explored growth opportunities for international education companies in Africa in 2015, after leaving his gig at Boston Consulting Group.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

Yet, after seeing data from the California School Dashboard and learning that close to one-fifth of McClymonds’ students were not graduating, he mentally shifted some accountability to the school, seeing a systemic failure to meet the needs of all students. percent of homes don’t have internet subscriptions.) Census Bureau. (In

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2017

As we wind down another year of chronicling education technology, we wondered: Which stories made the biggest impact? This year, you looked to trendsetting districts, thought leaders, tech giants and one very sage high school student to help make sense of rapid changes in education technology.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2025

Our top post of the entire year was a vulnerable essay about an administrators leadership failure and how he made things right. Young For better or worse, it seems like ChatGPT and its artificial intelligence brethren are disrupting education norms at nearly every turn. They shared first-hand experiences with racism in the workplace.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

At the time there was also a new effort to create standards for education technology, the Instructional Management Systems project, which helped convinced me there was real potential for what we now call learning management systems. At Blackboard we committed ourselves to improving teaching and learning by empowering the instructor.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2019

They are integrating computational thinking and computer science in with microelectronics and the internet of things. Learn from failure. Did I get a quality night's sleep? And these kids are just doing amazing things. Which are most useful? They have to be persistent. Resourcefulness.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

Failure is a valuable part of the process, and your attitude toward failure will shape the attitude of your students. Programming this microcontroller was error-prone and difficult, but the students learned techniques such as making one change at a time and then re-testing, taking notes, and being resourceful with internet searches.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2018

And in 2017, the New York Attorney General settled with the same organization , due to its “failure to adequately prevent illegal tracking technology from surfacing on some of the nation’s most popular children’s websites.” Amelia Vance, a policy counsel at the Future of Privacy Forum , has similar thoughts. “I

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This holiday season, we’ve been thinking back to simpler times—long before Cybermonday was a thing or the Internet was in widespread use. While data collection and analysis has transformed the holiday shopping experience, shopping for postsecondary education still resembles the outdated catalog model.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

Glitches in the system/internet mean that students often miss instructional time, are unable to complete their Exit Slip, or are late to their next class,” the parents wrote. Is mixed data enough to call a program a failure? Unfortunately this has happened quite a few times to many of our children.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Isn't that a failure?” And in some ways, I think it's always a great aspiration as an instructional designer to keep thinking about ways that you can help people persist in the learning experience, but I also think we're setting an incredibly high bar for what is often free content on the internet.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The popularity of online learning tools, web-based rich content such as video, interactive digital textbooks, e-books, online assessment and the increasing dependence on the internet for student and teacher learning is growing rapidly. They had failures. At the end of the day, they transformed our world incredibly—including education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

Without having to get political, the internet has opened up lots, and lots, and lots of alternative facts. Do you see a failure of college teaching as contributing to the political climate we’re in these days? You’re going to have to learn how to learn content on your own, which you can do at home.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2017

Like an ad on the internet? This could be the single most successful ad in the history of education. Going into undergraduate education was] really, the one time in our nine-year history that we did something entirely different. And it is, without question, our biggest failure in nine years. I actually got an ad.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2017

Campbell: I would challenge anyone to find a thoughtful liberal-learning curriculum that has been carefully structured by experts for free on the internet. What we do have are an astonishing and growing number of open educational resources, which I am very glad for. Let me speak to the question that you've asked.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

This makes access or lack of access to technology one of the many social determinants of health , or conditions that influence health risks and outcomes. According to the Federal Communications Commission, evidence is showing a strong relationship between broadband access, internet adoption and health outcomes.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2023

And that probably reflects some educational failures, though not just educational failures. There's a lot of things to say about technological change and the way the media has become fractured and the way the internet works to always serve up something next that you're going to agree with.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2022

2: The internet doesn’t create difficult discourse—people do. In a time when most interactions between students are happening in virtual spaces, some may wonder how we educate young people on the importance of civil discourse in digital spaces—especially when the current state of the internet isn’t always “civil."

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2017

An epic legal battle between authors and publishers and the Internet giant over alleged copyright violations dragged on for years. The rest come from the Internet Archive’s ongoing scanning work and local digitization efforts, according to Furlough. But the promised library of everything hasn’t come into being.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

So some pin One Laptop per Child's eventual failure on its technical shortcomings, and it was in a lot of cases a frustrating-to-use machine. They were built with, in many cases, older technology, technology that was typical maybe five or 10 or even longer years before these were manufactured. These were slow machines.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2018

Although he did not win, many youth in Maryland were inspired to see someone who was ‘Internet famous’ spin that name recognition into public office,” asserts Richardson. Failure to do this and more might continue to make Black and other students of color feel isolated and misunderstood in the classroom.

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