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. Where would you plot the Segway, for example? (In Virtual worlds in 2007, for example. The quotation is from 2012. Maybe it will.).

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This is a throwback post, first published in March 2014 (and referring to yet another post all the way back in 2007). First, I know more computer science and computer programming now than I did in 2007. Second, I’ve been using computers and software more and more in my teaching. Mostly this is because of two things.

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Hack Education

JULY 2, 2016

VR appeared in some of the earliest Horizon Reports for example, with the 2007 report positing that virtual worlds would be adopted by higher ed institutions within two to three years’ time; funnily enough, the 2016 report offers the same outlook: we’re still two to three years out from widespread adoption of VR.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

” That’s Joel Rose ’s School of One software. ” The Google Memo. Via Motherboard : “ Google Employee’s Anti-Diversity Manifesto Goes ‘Internally Viral’ ” Via Wired : “Internal Messages Show Some Googlers Supported Fired Engineer’s Manifesto.” million total.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Much like “brain training,” “brain scanning” was repeatedly hyped this year as a possible way to improve the efficacy of education software. Take iPads , for example. Say, the Android device in Google’s Cardboard Viewer and Expeditions program.). Fads fade, of course. Hype wanes. Or MOOCs even.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

” 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.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Or the company will have to start charging for the software.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Why, for example, would Microsoft famously put out a study in 2015 saying that humans’ attention spans are shorter than goldfish’s? ” The photo was taken as part of a 2007 profile in Fortune magazine. The “PayPal Mafia” alone is a pretty good example of this. This is the “PayPal Mafia.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

As she writes, “many of these models encoded human prejudice, misunderstanding and bias into the software systems that increasingly manage our lives.”. Shaw, which is a hedge fund, and I started in June 2007, so right before the credit crisis started breaking. I'm curious about a higher education example you talk about in your book.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

It also treats “ed-tech” primarily as a product built by engineers, not for example, constructed through the practices of educators or students themselves – problems with education are, in this framework, engineering problems. Every industry uses computers, software, and internet services.

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