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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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It’s not even an LMS, quite frankly – something Edmodo tried to use as a selling point for a little while. To believe that would require, of course, that we overlook the role that the major technology platforms – Google, Facebook, and Amazon – play in education. One might ask, I suppose, if LMSes are platforms.

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And The Next Web headline makes for… something: “ Facebook and Google could be allowed to award university degrees.” accuse Google of failing to gain their consent before scanning their emails via its Apps For Education suite for advertising purposes,” says Education Dive. ” Presidential Campaign Politics.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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The NAACP endorses OER. ” Gotta love a quote like this, from a story in Edsurge profiling McComb, Mississippi ’s Summit Elementary School: “We are learning how to mitigate between policy and trying to be as innovative as possible without breaking state laws.” ” Oh. Cyber Charters , Study Finds.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. Or rather, their interest wasn’t in the features of the new LMS. Google Reader. Google shut down Reader in 2013 , citing declining use of RSS.

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PowerSchool has acquired the LMS Haiku Learning for an undisclosed sum. “ Apple , Microsoft , Amazon and Google Are Fighting a War for the Classroom,” says Edutechnica , with a look at how many colleges have adopted their competing pseudo-LMSes. FoxConn will acquire SMART for $4.50 ” asks Education Dive.

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Via the Providence Journal : “Three teachers have resigned from Blackstone Valley Prep after the charter school confirmed allegations that they posted hurtful messages about some of their students” into a Google Doc shared with the entire school. ” Here’s the rub: it’s an LMS. “Can U.S.

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Via the Google blog : “ Google introduces Hire , a new recruiting app that integrates with G Suite.” ” Google boasts about “ teaching skills ” using VR. Edsurge on “Bridging the School-to-Business Gap: What Public Schools Can Learn From Industry.” Sounds Familiar.”