MindShift

JULY 31, 2020

On a recent summer day, librarian Lyn Hunter posted a video to YouTube on how to make a weather thermometer using a straw, rubbing alcohol and a bottle. They posted it to the library’s YouTube channel as part of their new summer programming, the majority of which is taking place online due to COVID-19. .

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 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. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Speaking of Google, “ Google Is Teaching Children How to Act Online. Juni Learning has raised $790,000 from Arielle Zuckerberg, Jessica Livingston, Adora Cheung, and Deborah Quazzo for – you guessed it – private tutoring. Remember: the biases of engineers and managers get baked into the software you use.

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