Report: 89% of students prefer tech-savvy schools

By Pat Donachie, Education Dive

Sudents want to attend a tech-savvy college or university, but 58% of students found their institution was less likely than other businesses to personalize the digital experience, according to a new survey of a 1000 students from Ellucian. But, there was mixed response on how an application could impact the student experience; 68% of students attending schools with such an app said the amount of information was initially “overwhelming,” but 85% of students at schools without a centralized app said they would have liked one throughout the transition to college life, reports Campus Technology.  Students responded they were most interested in personalization efforts when it came to career prep, followed closely by financial assistance and tuition insight. Eight out of ten students endorsed institutional social media use, with Facebook being the preferred app of 33% of respondents.

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Building a Virtual Reality Career

By Caroline Watson, Udacity

As an elementary school english teacher in Phoenix, AZ, Kristin was in constant search of new ways to further engage students through the use of technology. But she didn’t think of herself as a “technical” person. That role belonged to her husband, a software developer. All the same, she was surprisingly proactive on her student’s behalf. In her spare time, she started both a coding and a robotics club. But her motivation was rooted in curiosity—for her, technology was more of a hobby. She never considered a future for herself in the tech industry. “I had this false perception that I wasn’t very good at math. But, I realized over time that computer science is really less about math and more about logic—which I’m good at!”

https://blog.udacity.com/2017/11/building-virtual-reality-career.html

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‘Personalized learning’ pitched as alternative to current WV ed methods

By Ryan Quinn, WV Gazette Mail

Arguing that jobs are threatened by future automation and criticizing current prevailing education models, the president and chief executive officer of the International Association for K-12 Online Learning advocated Wednesday for the nationally in vogue education concept of “personalized learning” and the related idea of “competency based education.” These terms often are connected to school technology and online education, both of which are venues for companies to make money off the public school system, and both of which have had studies cast doubt upon their effectiveness.

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10 Places To Study Fintech Courses Online

by Angela Scott-Briggs, Tech Bullion

Last year, worldwide investment in financial technology totalled US$22.3 billion. As global investment in the fintech market continues to increase, taking fintech courses Online will help you understand and enter the fintech industry. Through classes, you may connect with many start-ups and incumbents alike. The courses will not only give you a free ticket for fintech jobs but also offers you a good understanding of the industry. The following are 10 places to study fintech courses online.

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4 cornerstones helped Ithaca College transform its IT organization

by Roger Riddell, Education Dive

In a Thursday morning session at last week’s Educause conference in Anaheim, CA, Ithaca College Interim Associate Vice President & CIO David Weil and University of Richmond CIO Keith “Mac” McIntosh, Ithaca’s former CIO, discussed how they turned around the New York institution’s IT structure. The session drew a crowd that left standing room only, and while the transformation is still underway, it focused on the following four cornerstones that can serve as a blueprint for other institutions looking to streamline operations across any number of departments.

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Online learning furthers students’ dreams no matter where they are

by Penn State

So far this year, more than 600 students from 85 countries are enrolled in Penn State through the World Campus. Students are spread across six continents in countries such as Japan, Germany, Zimbabwe and Papua New Guinea. “I think I wouldn’t have made it without Penn State,” said Fernando Ribeiro, who is pursuing a master’s degree in positive psychology. “Education is one of the most important things, especially in the work that I do.” In the suburbs of Pretoria, South Africa, World Campus student Adriaan Van der Merwe is halfway through completing a bachelor’s degree in turfgrass management while working and being a husband and the father of a 5-year-old son.

http://news.psu.edu/story/433642/2016/10/24/academics/online-learning-furthers-students%E2%80%99-dreams-no-matter-where-they-are

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6 tips for innovative teaching in a digital age

By Stephen Noonoo, eSchoolNews

Veteran educator Ann McMullan offers her best advice for innovative teaching that all educators can try. Learning to change your teaching practice in today’s digital-first world is a bit like learning a foreign language, to hear ed-tech vet Ann McMullan tell it. “You don’t speak it fluently on the first day. But you pick up one word, two words, three words, and the more you engage and the more you use it, the more natural it begins to feel.” McMullan, who is the former executive director of educational technology at Klein ISD in Texas, was responsible for rolling out that district’s massive one-to-one program several years ago. Now an ed-tech consultant, in this video McMullan offers her best tips for innovative teaching in a changing world.

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2015/11/02/innovative-teaching-849/

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Edtech’s Next Big Disruption Is The College Degree

by Aaron Skonnard, Tech Crunch

For centuries, the college degree has been the global gold standard for assessing an individual entering the workforce. But after cornering the credentials market for nearly a millennium, the degree’s days alone at the top are most definitely numbered. By 2020, the traditional degree will have made room on its pedestal for a new array of modern credentials that are currently gaining mainstream traction as viable measures of learning, ability and accomplishment. Technology is changing the job market, and it’s only natural that we find new ways of determining who’s the right fit for those jobs.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/29/edtechs-next-big-disruption-is-the-college-degree/#.mcirfbh:I4Aj

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Why Aren’t More Girls Pursuing Careers in Computing and Tech Fields?

By MICHAEL GONCHAR, New York Times

In “What Really Keeps Women Out of Tech,” Eileen Pollack writes: Technology companies know they have a gender and diversity problem in their work force, and they are finally taking steps to try to fix it. But where are those new employees going to come from if women and minority students aren’t opting to study computer science or engineering? Figuring out why people who choose not to do something don’t in fact do it is like attempting to interview the elves who live inside your refrigerator but come out only when the light is off. People already working for a company might tell you what makes them unhappy. But these complaints won’t necessarily pinpoint the factors that keep women and minorities away from studying computer science in the first place.

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How Should Schools Address Cyberbullying?

By MICHAEL GONCHAR, The New York Times

Questions about issues in the news for students 13 and older. Is cyberbullying a problem in your school? Have you or any of your friends been taunted, intimidated or called names online? Have you ever cyberbullied anyone? What responsibility do schools have to address online bullying, even if it occurs outside of school hours? How should schools tackle the issue?Room for Debate recently asked readers to weigh in on how schools should deal with online bullies outside of the classroom. Linked below are excerpts from some of the opinions:

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New tech empowers students to ignite own learning

by Todd Shields, Glenview Sun-Times

A writer and thinker on the topics of online learning and education, Will Richardson may sound like he favors doing away with school buildings. He doesn’t, but his point is this: self-learning is in the hands of kids while pursing creative interests. “We have access to so much information outside classrooms, and powerful Web technologies really amplifies it. Schools are the most important institutions in communities,” Richardson said Thursday at Glenbrook South High School in Glenview. “But part of learning is leaving the school and that’s the good thing. Students can create their own digital stories, games and animations.”

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New Paterson online program for 30 dropouts gets principal

BY JOE MALINCONICO, PATERSON PRESS

The city schools superintendent has appointed one of his highest-paid administrators to run a new program designed to help about 30 dropouts get their diplomas by doing their course work online. The superintendent, Donnie Evans, appointed Dorothy Douge as principal of what the district is calling its Extended Learning Opportunity School on Monday. Douge previously had been “principal on assignment” for two years and special assistant to the superintendent for the past year.

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Where In The World Do The Most Young People Use Technology?

By Katie Lepi, Edudemic

Yesterday, we talked a bit about digital natives and digital immigrants. I mentioned at the beginning of that post that I got into thinking about this after reading an article that discussed which countries have the most digital natives. The article was pretty interesting, and drew on information from the recent UN International Telecommunications Union (UTI) study that looked at the proportion of young people in each country that grew up with the internet. At first, I figured that the results of this study would be pretty obvious. First world countries with large populations and higher birth rates would be at the top of the list. After all, lots of kids + money for technology = more kids using technology, right? I was really interested when the results were not quite what I thought.

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U Penn School of Ed Launches Ed Tech Incubator

By Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology

The Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania has launched a start-up incubator specifically designed to help education business ideas get off the ground. The Education Design Studio Inc. (EDSi), as it’s called, has received $2.1 million in funding as well as support from a number of investors, including McGraw-Hill Education. Most of the initial round of start-up participants were finalists in an education business-plan competition that ran earlier this year. The idea of the Studio is to give education start-ups a way to collaborate with others in the education segment, including investors, researchers, practitioners, and entrepreneurs. “It’s a natural fit for Penn [Graduate School of Ed] because its emphasis on incorporating cutting-edge education research into innovative education start-ups plays to our strengths, including building upon our success with the Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition,” said Andy Porter, dean of the school.

http://campustechnology.com/articles/2013/10/31/u-penn-school-of-ed-launches-education-tech-incubator.aspx?admgarea=news

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Experts say education needs a technological and cultural change

BY SARAH SEXTON, McClatchy

While some technology enthusiasts celebrate new gadgets as the solution to the many challenges faced in the classroom, some educators say the answer is not the shiny new devices themselves, but how teachers use them. Education experts met Thursday in Washington to discuss both the potential of technology as a tool to help redesign teaching and learning, and the challenges of innovation in a static system with set routines. Among the panelists at the conference sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research was Superintendent Mark Edwards of North Carolina’s Mooresville Graded School District, His schools have captured national attention, as well as a visit from President Barack Obama, lauding the technology-infused curriculum.

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