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Badge Alliance, Blackboard, Bloomberg’s What Works Cities, Career Connected Learning, Chicago Summer of Learning, City of LRNG, Clinton Global Initiative, Collective Shift - LRNG Program, Democrats for Education Reform (DFER), digital badges, Digital On Ramps, Digital Promise, Drexel University, edX, ETS’ SuccessNavigator assessment, federated citizen in the cloud, gamification, gig economy, HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory), HIVE learning networks, human capital, Human Capital Investments in Education, K-12 LinkedIn Data Badges, Knack - predictive HR gaming platform, Learning Ecosystem, Lisa Nutter - Sidecar Social Finance, LRNG - Digital On Ramps, McCarthur Foundation - Collective Shift, Michael Nutter - What Works Cities, Microsoft, Mozilla Open Badges, Online Reputation Management in the Gig Economy, Pearson, Philadelphia’s Promise Zone initiative, Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium, Professional Examination Service and Council for Aid to Education, The Afterschool Alliance, workforce data badges, Workforce.IO, WorkReady, WorkReady Playlist

Badges Find Their Way to San Jose, Philadelphia (and the Point Defiance Zoo)

June 5, 2018 — 1 Comment

1:1 device initiatives, ALEC, ALEC Innovation Schools and School Districts, Bill Gates, Bill Gates / Gates Foundation, Common Core Standards, Competency Based Learning, Education Reimagined, ESSA, Future Ready, gig economy, Great Plains Software, Greg Tehven, iNACOL, Ken Kay, Knowledgeworks, Learning Ecosystem, LRNG city, Marcus Lingenfelter, Mass Customized Learning (competency-based education), Microsoft, Most Likely To Succeed, North Dakota, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21), personalized learning, School ReTool, social impact investing, STEM, Strive Together, Susie Wise, Teach for America, Ted Dintersmith, Tom Vander Ark, Tony Wagner, Work-Based Learning

They’ve Got Trouble, Up There in North Dakota (Dintersmith Strikes Again)

May 29, 2018 — 0 Comments

1:1 device initiatives, Algorithms, Amplify, AR/VR, augmented reality/virtual reality, Bill Gates / Gates Foundation, Boston Consulting Group, Carnegie Corporation, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Chromebooks, Common App, Common Education Data Standards, Common Sense Media, Data Interoperable, Data Quality Campaign, Digital Promise, ed-fi alliance, EdSurge, ESSA, Europe - GDPR, Facebook, FERPA, Future of Privacy Forum, gamification, Getting Smart, Go365, Harvard Project Zero, Humanetech, IMS Global, InnovateEDU, International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), Jeff Bezos, K-12 LinkedIn Data Badges, McKinsey Global Institute, Microsoft, Microsoft OneNote, Minecraft Education, National PTA, Naviance, Oculus Rift, Open Education Resources, #GoOpen initiative, Pearson, personalized learning, Project Unicorn, Relay Graduate School, Scholar Snap, Smart Cities, The Dell Foundation, Tom Vander Ark, Truth About Tech, US Department of Education (USDOE), US Department of Labor-Workforce Data Quality Initiative

Data Unicorns? Tech Giants and US Dept of Ed Form Alliance to Leverage Student Data — Without Parent Consent.

March 15, 2018 — 2 Comments

Algorithms, Amazon, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundaton, Bill Gates, Bill Gates / Gates Foundation, CEP (Commission for Evidence-based Policy), Cortana technology, data breaches, Data Quality Campaign, DataShop, Department of Education (DOE), Dreambox, Edmodo, Evidence based policy, Facebook, Federal Learning Registry, FERPA, Google Apps for Education, Google Classroom, Google Student Accounts, IRS, Knewton, LearnSphere, Microsoft, National Secure Database, NWEA MAP, PROJECT BRAINWAVE, Student Privacy, WORKFORCE Data Quality Campaign, Yet Analytics

Dear Congress, you are being duped. HR4174-S2046 is a Privacy Fail. Here’s why. ( And please no more suspended rules and voice votes on these bills. )

November 19, 2017 — 0 Comments

1:1 device initiatives, adaptive management systems, Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative, AI and education, Algorithms, AltSchool, Americorp volunteer, anytime, anyplace, anywhere, any pace learning, AR/VR, augmented reality/virtual reality, Army Research Lab, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundaton, Bill Gates, Bill Gates / Gates Foundation, Booz Allen Hamilton, Broad Superintendents Academy, Carnegie Mellon, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Charter schools, Chromebooks, Class Size, Classcraft, Common Core Standards, Cyber-Education, Department of Defense, Department of Education (DOE), Education Elements, ESSA, Evidence based policy, FERPA, financial de-stabilization, Future Ready, gamification, Global Education Futures: Agenda, global finance, Google Apps for Education, Google Student Accounts, grit, Halliburton, Hewlett Packard, High Stakes Testing, IBM, Innosight Institute, Institute for Creative Technologies, Kindergarten, Learning Ecosystem, Micro Schools, Microsoft, Minecraft, Montessori school model, Naviance, online chat bots, Opting Out of High Stakes Testing, Pavel Luksha, Pay for Success, Pearson, personalized learning, Project Based Learning, Reasoning Mind, Remake Learning, Rocketship, School Vouchers, Skolkovo Institute, Social Emotional Learning SEL, Summit Basecamp, The Clayton Christensen Institute, Tom Vander Ark, TouchSense, US Department of Education (USDOE), USC, Vouchers, whole child - data collection, workforce development

An Interview with Alison McDowell: KEXP’s Mind Over Matters Community Forum

August 14, 2017 — 1 Comment