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Hoping to Spur 'Learning Engineering,' Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software

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In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code available for anyone to see and modify.

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'The Brave Little Surveillance Bear' and Other Stories We Tell About Robots Raising Children

Hack Education

“I was not a lab rat,” she wrote in an op-ed in The Guardian in 2004. This is the story we hear and we tell about computers, about algorithmic systems like adaptive learning, predictive analytics, personalization. None of these are true. But that’s the story that gets told nonetheless. Enhance, not replace.

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The Rough Beasts of Ed-Tech

Hack Education

Sea Monkeys, x-ray googles, and invisibility helmets, much like all education technology products, base a lot of of their marketing on assurances and performances of scientific amazement and technological progress. Suddenly it’s not merely a matter of parlor tricks; it’s the presidency. How much of ed-tech is humbug?