Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. It announced this year it was “ phasing out ” its reliance on Knewton provide those algorithms.). Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries.

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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.

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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. Knewton (adaptive teaching software). While some have scoffed that the size of the donation – $1.25

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

I wrote about his education portfolio – it includes Clever, Knewton, and AltSchool – but I’ll revisit this topic when I tackle ed-tech and surveillance “personalization” in a subsequent article in this series.). “Facebook is well-positioned for a Trump presidency,” I joked in September.

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