The future of school in India is online

by Maria Thomas May, Quartz

By 2021, the country’s online education industry is expected to be worth $1.96 billion, a huge jump from just $247 million in 2016, according to a new report by Google and KPMG. While re-skilling and online certification courses constitute the biggest category today, particularly popular among IT workers, the report forecasts that it’s primary and secondary supplemental education that will dominate in a few years. That’s because students from smaller towns and cities will benefit from increasing access to the internet. Titled Online Education in India: 2021, the report also forecasts that test preparation courses will be the fastest-growing category as engineering and government service aspirants look to better their chances at entrance exams.

https://qz.com/994196/the-future-of-school-in-india-is-online/

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As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating

By JESS BIDGOOD and JEREMY B. MERRILL, NY Times

College students have flooded into computer science courses across the country, recognizing them as an entree to coveted jobs at companies like Facebook and Google, not to mention the big prize: a start-up worth millions. The exploding interest in these courses, though, has coincided with an undesirable side effect: a spate of high-tech collegiate plagiarism. Students have been caught borrowing computer code from their friends or cribbing it from the internet. “There’s a lot of discussion about it, both inside a department as well as across the field,” said Randy H. Katz, a professor in the electrical engineering and computer science department at the University of California, Berkeley, who discovered in one year that about 100 of his roughly 700 students in one class had violated the course policy on collaborating or copying code.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/29/us/computer-science-cheating.html

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Online education program lets a cowgirl be a cowgirl

by Doug Clark, Spokesman-Review

Let me tell you a story about readin’, writin’, ridin’ and ropin’. The tale is as much about the modern cyber age we live in. Because of that, public school can be tailor-made for even online cowgirls like Evelyn Picking. Evelyn is 13. She lives on 100 acres of cowboy country, fine rolling ranchland just outside of Omak, Washington. She’s also part of a long line of ropers and rodeo wranglers. Leo Moomaw, for example, Evelyn’s great-grandfather, established his homestead here, breeding and raising quality stock for the professional rodeo circuit. Evelyn was introverted and lacking in confidence. Her grades suffered. Something had to be done. The answer came last October, when Evelyn started taking her classes through the Washington Virtual Academies (or WAVA). An online charter K-12 program, WAVA lets students take classes over the internet. One of dozens of similar programs, WAVA, which is free because it counts as public education, is monitored by the Digital Learning Department that was created in 2009.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/may/30/doug-clark-online-education-program-lets-a-cowgirl/

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Worldwide PC Market Expected to Slump in 2016 and 2017

By Richard Chang, THE Journal

Worldwide PC shipments are expected to decline by 73 percent year over year in 2016, according to a recent forecast by the International Data Corporation’s (IDC) “Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker.” The outlook continues to predict progressively smaller declines through 2017, followed by stable volume in 2018. However, growth in 2016 is now expected to be about 2 percent below earlier projections, as conditions have been weaker than expected. Growth in the first quarter of 2016 came in at -12.5 percent, below IDC’s forecast of -11.3 percent. Impediments such as weak currencies, depressed commodity prices, political uncertainty and delayed projects continue to constrain shipments.

https://thejournal.com/articles/2016/06/13/pc-market-expected-to-slump-in-2016-and-2017.aspx

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The Great Wall of Collaboration

By Jessi Toups, Karen D. Owens, THE Journal

Two educators tell stories of how using a widescreen interactive learning system gets students excited about sharing their work with their classmates. Every 21st-century teacher wants to encourage her students to collaborate. There are a slew of theories about how best to get students working together, but one key catalyst to collaboration is often overlooked: simple physical space. Here, two educators recount how their teaching and their students’ learning changed when they all started using a 102-inch-wide interactive learning system.

https://thejournal.com/articles/2016/06/08/the-great-wall-of-collaboration.aspx

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MITx Grant Program selects innovative digital learning projects

by Lisa Eichel, MIT

New projects emphasize using digital methods not possible in traditional classes, leveraging research-based teaching practices, and measuring student learning. The MIT Office of Digital Learning (ODL) recently announced the recipients of its Spring 2016 MITx Grant Program. The program funds the development and operation of online modules that leverage the edX platform for both global and residential audiences, in support of the digital learning strategies of MIT schools and departments.

http://www.ecampusnews.com/ed-tech-leadership/mitx-grant-program-selects-innovative-digital-learning-projects/

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JTED boss: Budget cuts are ‘death knell’

By Luis F. Carrasco, Tucson.com

Joint Technological Education Districts in Arizona will not survive the cuts the new state budget imposes, officials say, and they are counting on the business community to sway lawmakers in their favor. “We have really good support from businesses. Business is what got JTED passed by the voters,” said Pima County JTED Superintendent Alan Storm. JTED in Southern Arizona was approved in 2006 to offer tuition-free career and technical education programs to high school students from public, private, charter and home schools. Adults under 22 with a GED or who are studying to get one may also participate. Throughout the state, JTEDs offer dozens of programs in fields including engineering, bioscience, health care, automotive and public safety.

http://tucson.com/business/local/jted-boss-budget-cuts-are-death-knell/article_efa4cd77-49c3-58e4-839a-b9538f14bd28.html

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International conference to share learning tools to prepare students

BY JADE CHAN, the Star

Teachers from around the world gathered together to share their experiences on ensuring better learning outcomes for students. USING Minecraft to teach children Maths and being able to conduct classes without having to be physically present. These are among the interesting methods shared and learnt at a global exchange of 300 of the world’s most innovative educators. Three Malaysian teachers were part of this exciting event where they had the opportunity to work together, create and share their experiences on how to use technology to achieve better learning outcomes.

http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Education/2015/06/07/Learning-tools-to-prepare-students/

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Test Preppers, Take Note: Free SAT Study Tools Could Signal Sea Change

by Eric Weservelt, NPR

The SAT is undergoing major changes for 2016. And, as of today, students — for free — can tap into new online study prep tools from Khan Academy, the online education nonprofit. The partnership between Khan Academy and the College Board, which administers the SAT, could take a big bite out of the test prep-industrial complex; a multimillion dollar field that offers everything from $4,000 private tutoring courses to SAT prep shower curtains … for $28.99, plus shipping. And both organizations are working with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America to make both online and in-person tutoring available at clubs for students who don’t have computers, internet access or a supportive or safe place to study.

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/06/03/411488278/free-online-test-prep-for-the-sat

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Using iPads To Support Synchronous Collaboration: Examples from 1st Grade

By Cathie Norris, Elliot Soloway, THE Journal

Can first-graders — first-graders, short, 6-7 year olds — create concept maps with labeled nodes and arcs? Yes. Can first-graders create concepts maps collaboratively — working with two to three other first-graders? Yes! In today’s blog, we will recount our amazing experiences in classrooms in the Plymouth-Canton Community Schools (PCCS), MI, where three first grade teachers in two different elementary schools used WeMap, a collabrified concept mapping app that runs on iPads (and Android, and soon, Windows Phone with their first grade students.

http://thejournal.com/articles/2014/06/04/using-ipads-to-support-synchronous-collaboration.aspx

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A Solution To The Cross Platform Classroom Problem

By Jennifer Carey, Edudemic

Working in an unpredictable environment is especially challenging. As educators, we want to provide the most effective and innovative learning environment possible for our students. At the same time, it can be challenging to initiate a sophisticated, 21st century project with an eye to address the individual technology set-up of hundreds of students. Over the years of working in blended environments, I have found some solutions that allow me to assign sophisticated, robust projects without making me – or my students – go crazy in the process!

http://www.edudemic.com/cross-platform-classroom/

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The 8 Skills Students Must Have For The Future

By Katie Lepi, Edudemic

This year’s “The Learning Curve” report from Pearson takes a look at education across the globe. One of the main things the report does is rank the world’s educational systems (which we’ll talk about in a different post). What I find even more interesting is the focus on what skills current students need to meet the ever changing needs of the global market, and some potential ways to address shortcomings in our collective educational systems. See leadership, digital literacy and the half dozen other skills listed in the link below.

http://www.edudemic.com/new-skills-world-looking/

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