Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Via The Independent : “13-year-old girl arrested after contacting clown on social media and asking him to kill her teacher.” — Stephen King (@StephenKing) October 3, 2016. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). .” Nothing says “experts” like “crystal ball.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 19, 2016

One of the big stories this week: the US Department of Education ’s announcement about which “non-traditional providers” ( MOOCs , coding bootcamps ) will be eligible for financial aid as part of its EQUIP experiment. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Education Politics.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

High School seniors (left to right) Hayley Striegel, Olivia Poplawski, Cheri Zheng-Fredericks and Julie Pignataro look for ways to verify information they’ve encountered on social media. My students are all about social media. My students are all about social media. Northport, N.Y.,

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

I mean, the Cubs did win the World Series in 2016. ” In other words, we did not suddenly enter a period of “post-truth” in 2016. .” ” In other words, we did not suddenly enter a period of “post-truth” in 2016. The quackery in 2016 wasn’t new, in other words, but it was notable.

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Hack Education

APRIL 21, 2017

.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via WCTI12.com ” “ MOOCs Started Out Completely Free. Disclosure alert : no mention that Edsurge, which published this article, shares an investor with Class Central.). .” Where Are They Now?”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

. “ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity ,” ProPublica reports. Schools should consider the ways in which their own social media surveillance re-inscribes these sorts of violent, nationalist policies.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Either way, he’s gone too soon; we’ve lost too much , too many in 2016. pic.twitter.com/BBhsgwY2FZ — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) August 1, 2016. “Hardly Anyone Wants to Take a Liberal Arts MOOC,” Edsurge informed its readers in February. Read Mindstorms. ” ). Only “1.86

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. in 2016 on a student visa.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the credential section below. National) Education Politics. ” asks Pacific Standard.

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Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via Inside Higher Ed : “The State Department is proposing to ask additional questions of visa applicants regarding their social media usage.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

on Election Day 2016, closed at post-election high of $17.85 In the future, you might want to look for most MOOC-related news in the “business of job training” section below. ” (The narrative structure of these sorts of articles is always the same: crisis occurs; tech will save the day. Shares closed at $13.46

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Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” ClassDojo is now a full social media platform for schools - this letter & video just emailed to parents. National) Education Politics. That is all.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

I’ve never seen an education story receive quite as much attention from non-educators on social media. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ MOOC enrollment drops at HarvardX and MITx after free certifications disappear ,” says Techcrunch. It was a disaster.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

There’s less than a month left of the 2016 Presidential campaign and The End can’t come soon enough. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Microsoft -Branded MOOCs for K–12 Leaders.” Presidential Campaign Politics. Education in the Courts.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Brown University joins edX. “ Y Combinator MOOC for Tech Startups Attracts Thousands of Views,” says Campus Technology. Not sure why this is called a MOOC. “ Social-Emotional Learning Is the Rage in K–12. The Business of Job Training.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.) Under a Trump administration: I very much want ed-tech companies and schools to reconsider collecting so much data about students — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) November 10, 2016.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

“High school students will be allowed to carry mace in the 2016–2017 school year after the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education agreed to remove prohibitive language and amend its policy,” the Salisbury Post reports. — Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) May 10, 2016. charter school.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ For-Profit Companies With the Highest Enrollments at Their Colleges, Fall 2016.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). National) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. There’s an article in the venture philanthropy section below about how private student loans are being pitched as “impact investing.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. Um, they do.)

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

This year feels different too than the previous years in which I’ve written these reviews because education technology – as an industry – sort of floundered in 2016, as I think my series will show. Each Friday, I gather all the education and education technology and technology-related news into one article. (I

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

Every year since 2010, I’ve undertaken a fairly massive project in which I’ve reviewed the previous twelve months’ education and technology news in order to write ten articles covering “the top ed-tech trends.” But the total dollars fell sharply in 2016 – “only” $2.2

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

” The University of Northern New Jersey had a website – one with a.edu domain, to boot – as well as several active social media profiles. 2016 was, as the president of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation wrote earlier this month in Inside Higher Ed , a “ Pivotal Year for Accreditation.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 27, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ’” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Reminder: a lot of MOOC news is now job training news, so you’ll find some updates in that section below. National) Education Politics. ”).

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

” Via Politico : “ Several Trump appointees shared unflattering views of minorities, women on social media.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via George Veletsianos : “A large-scale study of Twitter Use in MOOCs.” 2 job at the U.S. " No s**t.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

” I’ve looked at how for-profit colleges , MOOCs , and learn-to-code companies have tapped into these narratives in order to justify their products and services. These have all been separate articles in each series. The prison market. “The new economy.” ” The New Vocationalism.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

“ From the article that ”innovative teaching practice" appears to be project-based learning. ” The article is accompanied by a photo of a classroom full of Asian students – as if Asian is not American. Maybe social media is broken, Cathy O’Neil suggests. Education in the Courts.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

EDITED TO ADD: Apparently, The Guardian article is not quite right. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” edX is offering an online master’s degree with Georgia Tech : an OMS (online master’s in science) in Analytics. The Economist on “ The Return of the MOOC.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 3, 2016

Testing, Testing… “Most of the questions from New York ’s 2016 state tests are now public,” Chalkbeat reports. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). pic.twitter.com/hi32s3S9ke — Chris O'Connor (@ChristopOConnor) May 30, 2016. Which is probably worse than no graduates.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

” For those keeping track of how great social media is for the future of education and knowledge and civics and such: “Last Year, Social Media Was Used to Influence Elections in at Least 18 Countries ,” says the MIT Technology Review. ” “Whatever Happened To MOOCs ?”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

was named in an investigation by The Associated Press last year for sharing racially charged content on social media.” Via The Guardian : “ Trump bans agencies from ‘providing updates on social media or to reporters’ ” This ban has been targeted at scientists at the EPA and USDA in particular.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Via NJ Spotlight : “Few Class of 2016 Graduates Manage to Pass PARCC Tests.” ” “So-So Social Media Privacy? ” Edsurge has released the final article in its AT&T-funded research report on “ the state of ed-tech.” college testing scam , to be deported.”

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