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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

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” – 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. In October of 2006 , Gartner said that Apple’s “best bet for long-term success is to quit the hardware business and license the Mac to Dell.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via the AP : “A South Carolina solicitor says a sheriff’s deputy will face no charges for tossing a student across a classroom after she refused to put away her cellphone.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” The school in question: the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

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.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot. Only “1.86

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ MOOCs : A Postmortem” by Jonathan Rees. Meanwhile, Campus Technology offers “7 Tips for Listing MOOCs on Your Résumé.” ” Via Ozy.com : “How High Schools Are Demolishing the Classroom.” ” Tech PR gonna PR.