Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

The current events video feed we find in public spaces. Of all possible events on Earth, which one do they deem to be of vital, international importance? Or did you see another CNN host beclowning herself, when a reporter/host/robot confused Edward Snowden and Edward Scissorhands ? CNN, the respectable, putatively neutral one.

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Social Media Robotics Report Survey 40

Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

Perhaps it should go in the “robots” section. This is so important to consider, as Tufekci noted on Twitter, in light of Google’s domination of the K–12 computing market.). No mention of privacy issues, because you won’t get invited to the next launch event if you’re too critical.

Education 46

Education MOOC Company Report 46

Hack Education

MAY 24, 2017

Certainly the title of this segment of today’s event – “the new normal” – seems to conclude that something in School’s ways, to borrow Papert’s phrase, has shifted.) Facebook and Twitter grew in popularity as social networks emerged to profoundly reconfigure information and media.

Technology 76

Technology Education Industry Company 76

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Here’s a science textbook I was assigned at his school in 2007. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via George Veletsianos : “A large-scale study of Twitter Use in MOOCs.” ” “ Breitbart Editor’s Event Canceled As Protests Turn Violent At UC Berkeley.” Jerry Falwell Jr.

Education 40

Education MOOC Data Elsevier 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

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. million people had attended the event. Why was so much ed-tech “fake news”?

Technology 71

Technology Education Facebook Social Media 71

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. Buy them a beer when you see them at an event and thank them for covering the LMS industry so I don’t have to. Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62