Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. The quotation is from 2012. ” I don’t believe that more technology means that education gets “more better.” So it is predicted.

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Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2022

I know that my work makes people feel uncomfortable, particularly when so much of the tech and ed-tech industry mantra rests on narratives promising a happy, shiny, better future. It's entertaining, I guess — the dinosaurs and the Neanderthals and the Industrial Revolution, and stuff like that.

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Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

It’s also a matter of a $40 million civil suit against Trump University, a business that Donald Trump and two associates founded in 2004. In 2004, the mantra might have been “everyone should learn real estate”; now it’s “everyone should learn to code.” What are MOOCs, for example?

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

.” This was what the mother of a nineteen-year-old killed by a bomb in Kirkuk said on an HBO documentary quoted by Bob Herbert in The New York Times on the morning of November 12, 2004. Or MOOCs even. “But I thought that if, as long as I didn’t let him in, he couldn’t tell me. No evidence. Fads fade, of course.

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