Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Earlier this year, Microsoft made headlines when it debuted Tay, a new chatbot modeled to speak like a teenage girl, which rather dramatically turned into “ a Hitler-loving sex robot within 24 hours ” of its release, as The Telegraph put it. ” If you made the software social, people would find it easier to learn and use.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Instead, each team member spent a few minutes sketching out how one part — a marble run, say, or a Lego Robotics kicking foot — would operate within the machine. Computational thinking is intimately related to computer coding, which every kid in South Fayette starts learning in first grade. No single child designed a complete machine.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

.” Via Bookriot : “On Wednesday, August 23, the city council of Escondido, California voted, 3 to 2, to move forward with plans to hand their public library over to the private, for-profit company Library Systems and Services.” Via The AP : “ Learning software in classrooms earns praise, causes debate.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

Not really ed-tech-related, except for all those companies saying they’re “Uber for education.” ” The New York Times on “ mastery based learning ” : “A New Kind of Classroom: No Grades, No Failing, No Hurry.” ISTE has hired Joseph South as its Chief Learning Officer.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

I’d hardly know where to begin in writing one, but I want to open this particular article – one that focuses, in part, on the whole “everyone should learn to code” craze – recognizing his great contribution to educational computing as well as his loss. There were many remembrances penned for Seymour this year.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

They have to learn early.”. Related: Blue-collar town leads Rhode Island’s tech-assisted learning revolution. Third grade students at Meeker Elementary school share an iPad in a blended learning class in Greeley, Colorado. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. They can’t wait until they’re 30 years old.

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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

opens door for student loan companies to ignore state authority.” This isn’t really financial aid per se, but it’s part of the larger suite of financial products that schools (and the companies they partner with) push. ” Via Wired : “Tech Companies Try to Retrain the Workers They’re Displacing.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Among other things, they say, their work could lead to the kind of robotic exoskeletons imagined in the movie Aliens. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. That spending, in turn, produces more than 2,600 patents and 400 companies a year, according to the National Science Board. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Hack Education

MAY 24, 2017

This talk was given today at CENTRO's symposium "Data, Paper, Scissors Tech-Based Learning Experiences for Higher Education" in Mexico City. That period was also one of enormous growth in new digital technology companies. Netflix moved from DVDs to a streaming service to a media company in its own right.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Textbook Publishers vs. Boundless.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Here’s a science textbook I was assigned at his school in 2007. Via Campus Technology : “ Harvard Tailoring the MOOC Experience With Adaptive Learning.” ” Via AIR : “Getting Back on Track: What Math Content Is Taught and Learned in Online and Face-to-Face Algebra Credit Recovery Courses ?”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

But I wanted to consider too why the stories we repeatedly tell about education and education technology were so fanciful – stories about impending disruptions and revolutions and robot teachers and brain zappers and so on. ” Sites of indoctrination , not learning. Why was so much ed-tech “fake news”?

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