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A Gullible Population Is a National Security Issue

The CoolCatTeacher

Social media has not shown an ability to “self correct” perhaps because by its very nature, the responses can only be positive and thus, there is no self-correcting mechanism built into its algorithm. He asserts that the Chinese hacked the both the Obama and McCain campaigns in the 2008 election cycle.

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Distributed groups and mobile technology

Connecting 2 the World

How has mobile technology affected distributed groups? In a recent chapter I wrote about mobile technology, researchers (Ladner, 2008; Julsrud & Bakke, 2009) found that there is a blurring of the lines between work and home life. Portus (2008) had these findings in her study on mobile phone use in the Philippines.

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Can Marketing Automation Bring College Enrollment Numbers Up?

Edsurge

From January to July 2013, Marketo had 28 such customers, according to a Marketo spokeswoman. Getting students to graduate remains a greater challenge: In 2014, 60 percent of students seeking a bachelor’s degree at a four-year college in 2008 completed their degrees by 2014, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

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Experiences in Self-Determined Learning: Moving from Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0

User Generated Education

Use technologies and mobile apps based on drill and grill where learners are given direction instruction via these technologies and asked to provide the correct answers via quiz questions. (I also saw the development of social media which permits users to communicate directly with one another synchronously and asynchronously.

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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

And as you surely know, TurnItIn became a huge business, bought and sold several times over by private equity firms since 2008: first by Warburg Pincus, then by GIC, and then, in 2014, by Insight Partners — the price tag for that sale: $754 million. TurnItIn was acquired by the media conglomerate Advance Publications last year for $1.75

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The new labor market: No bachelor’s required?

The Hechinger Report

Troy Groom, of Hyattsville, Maryland, was browsing social media this spring when he read something that made him perk up: Gov. Any shift in the workforce to the advantage of workers without degrees carries obvious implications for economic mobility and equity. This story also appeared in The Washington Post.

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Are You on Mastodon Yet? Social Network of Our Own

ProfHacker

I have used it mostly on mobile, but just now checked out the computer version. I was on Twitter in 2008 when it first started but never used it until 2013 (different account). our imagination of how much control we can finally have on our social media. However, things don’t sync well across PC and mobile yet.