Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. Education’s Proto-Platforms. If so, what are they?

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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.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

The work is also supported by companies including Apple, Google and Expedia, as well as education organizations including the CollegeBoard, Teach For America and STEMx.” And then there’s the advice from Pearson. According to the latest jobs report , unemployment in the US is at 4.6%, the lowest since 2007.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.” billion by 2025.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

.” DeVos’s brother, Erik Prince , is the founder of the private military company Blackwater , infamous for its human rights violations, including the murder of 17 Iraqi civilians in 2007 by its employees. Michael Barber will leave Pearson some time next year, according to EdWeek. Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2017

” The photo was taken as part of a 2007 profile in Fortune magazine. AltSchool founder Max Ventilla was a Google exec. Who worked at Google. And then I’m happy to answer any questions you might have about the current state of ed-tech – products or propaganda. This is the “PayPal Mafia.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Marc Andreessen famously said that “software is eating the world,” but it’s far more accurate to say that the neoliberal values of software tycoons are eating the world. Every industry uses computers, software, and internet services. Facebook, like Google, is an advertising company. Texas and Fisher v.

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