Hack Education

AUGUST 28, 2019

Google and Facebook are paradigmatic here, and Zuboff argues that the former was instrumental in discovering the value of behavioral surplus when it began, circa 2003, using user data to fine-tune ad targeting and to make predictions about which ads users would click on.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 16, 2012

At the time of writing, Facebook boasts over 845 million subscriptions and this statistics grows each month. And that's just Facebook. In his 2003 book 'Six Degrees', Duncan Watts expounded the idea of being connected in the digital age, drawing upon the theories of psychologist Stanley Milgram. This is not hyperbole.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

Personally, I find myself in agreement with Brian Winston (2003), preferring to view social applications as a facet of gradual evolution rather than symptoms of sudden revolution. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s. van Dijk, 2002) or simply another phase in its relentless progress. Wheeler, S. and Lambert-Heggs, W.

Wiki 62

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 1, 2016

By 2006 several social networking sites were enjoying surges in popularity, including MySpace, Bebo and of course, Facebook. Social media lend themselves naturally to support learning through discussions, collaboration and sharing. They also have the capacity to support personal learning. Unported License.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

But during that same fifteen-year period, we also witnessed the birth and growth of highly influential firms like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Tencent and Alibaba. As recently as 1997, only 27 percent of America’s K-12 school had internet access—a number that skyrocketed to 92 percent by 2003.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

I had never seen kids so in charge of their learning.”. Related: What if personalized learning was less about me and more about us? In 2003, the Gates Foundation gave RISC $5.8 Each student had a little bar chart on their desk that tracked their progress toward mastery in each standard. “I

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2017

The next day after the administration’s announcement, several tech giants – Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Salesforce, and other – said they would help fund the White House’s commitment to CS, to the tune of $300 million more. AI will be the key to “personalized learning.”

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