Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

Twitter activity during the hour was also very energetic, so I Storified it. That recalls how shipping containers changed the global shipping industry. One mentioned that their institution used to host WordPress locally, but is now exploring externally hosted social media (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc).

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The Electric Educator

JUNE 28, 2010

For decades, industries of all types have focused their time, energy, and ingenuity on creating "hits" which appealed to the largest possible segment of the population. According to the Sloan Consortium the number of K-12 students engaged in online courses in 2007-2008 is estimated at 1,030,000. This number will continue to grow.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 12, 2012

In the primary (elementary) and secondary (high) school sectors some can be conspicuous, because through various Teachmeets around the world, and also online during Twitter #edchats, they make their work known to the wider community. We are fortunate to have many innovators in education. What is an Alternate Reality Game (ARG)?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. I’m not sure it was, but then again, understanding the LMS industry is really their thing and not mine (something for which I am eternally grateful). A computing platform is the stage on which computer programs can run.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 11, 2015

Started in Israel in 2007, feature-packed Waze was purchased by Google about a year ago which means it can share features with–and from–Google’s in-house Google Maps. Popular Recipes include: IF I post a photo on Instagram THEN share it on Twitter. You can even send an ‘I’m on my way!’ Insider tips.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The Twitter bot was built to “learn” by parroting the words and phrases from the other Twitter users that interacted with it, and – because, you know, Twitter – those users quickly realized that they could teach Tay to say some really horrible things. The History of the Future of Chatbots. Bots send spam.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2019

In an interview with EdSurge, Moe reflects on his path that took him on a “25-year passion” in the education industry, and what lies ahead. At the time, healthcare was a large industry—like 8 percent of GDP—but it was a cottage industry and wildly fragmented. It was a cottage industry. Now he’s pivoting to just one.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

But then their teacher, Will Colglazier, demonstrated how a couple more exploratory clicks—critically, beyond the site itself—revealed that the Employment Policies Institute is considered by the Center for Media and Democracy to be a front group created by lobbyists for the restaurant and hotel industries. “I They got duped.”.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

” Industry, not the child’s imagination as Seymour would have it, largely dictates the shape and direction of the CS trend. If there is a gap, it’s perhaps the one that persists in STEM education and in the technology industry more broadly – that is, these remain overwhelmingly white and overwhelmingly male.

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Hack Education

MAY 24, 2017

Because of industry and because of institutions and because of capitalism and because of the weight of history and tradition, technologies are often hegemonic, even if, from time-to-time, we can seize them for counter-hegemonic stories and practices. Or rather, what exactly do computers subvert? Institutions? The public?). It is outmoded.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I

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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

This is so important to consider, as Tufekci noted on Twitter, in light of Google’s domination of the K–12 computing market.). ” From the NCES : “Changes in Bullying Victimization and Hate-Related Words at School Since 2007.” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 16, 2016

That sentiment was echoed this week in the hashtag #repealthe19th trended on Twitter , as Trump supporters responded to an image shared by poll analyst Nate Silver showing a landslide victory for Trump if only men voted this fall. While some have scoffed that the size of the donation – $1.25 Libertarianism. Individualism.

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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.” .” “With Falwell as Education Adviser, His Own University Could Benefit,” says Kevin Carey. Jerry Falwell Jr.

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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. Via The Daily Dot : “ Twitter tells developers to stop making police surveillance tools that use its data.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

And that’s a problem right there, no doubt, as journalism regularly gets scientific research wrong, often repeating the synopses from paywalled articles or the stories that industry hopes it will share: Is chocolate good for your health ? Are standing desks ? Is ESP real ? Do cellphones cause brain cancer ? Should you ban laptops ?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

It treats “ed-tech” as the result of markets and industry and “innovation,” and not as the result of policy or history. There is No Technology Industry (There is Only Ideology). “ There is no ‘technology industry’ ,” technology writer and entrepreneur Anil Dash wrote in August.

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