The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

The state’s largest district, in Providence, has dramatically increased its spending on web-based instructional programs, from $158,000 in the 2011-12 school year to $928,000 in 2015-16, the latest data available. We use Google all the time. apps and software, with some classes much more tech-reliant than others.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

” It’s now unclear, observers say, if the FTC can regulate companies like Google or Verizon. From Boing Boing : “Paterno was fired in 2011 after it emerged that during his tenure, [assistant coach] Jerry Sandusky had assaulted dozens of youngsters in his care. Robots probably won’t take your jobs.

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JUNE 17, 2016

“The Vastmanland court ruled Tuesday the Malardalen University ’s two-year program ‘Analytical Finance’ that Connie Askenback attended from 2011 to 2013 ‘had no practical value.’” ” Via the Hechinger Report : “Can a wall-climbing robot teach your kid to code?”

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

So instead of a zeppelin, we got to ride in one of Google’s self-driving cars, which was of course the project that Thrun had been working on when he gave his famous TED Talk in 2011 – and that, in turn, was where he heard Salman Khan give his famous TED Talk. Google versus Uber. Efficiency.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Cumulative Growth in Number of MOOCs , 2011–18.” Via CNBC : “ Google , Apple and 13 other companies that no longer require employees to have a college degree.” ” Via the Google blog : “ VR Labs open doors of opportunity for STEM students.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2011, Ning was acquired by “lifestyle” site Glam Media for around $150 million. In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 24, 2017

“The Snooki bill” is a response to $32,000 that the Jersey Shore star received from Rutgers in 2011. Via The USA Today : “Kids on winning robotics team told, ‘Go back to Mexico’ ” The kids were from Pleasant Run Elementary School in Indianapolis. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

For what it’s worth, according to the latest data from the NCES , the number of post-secondary institutions in the US has increased since 2011. There have been several stories recently calling the Google Books project a failure. ” Google announces more updates to its pseudo-LMS, Google Classroom. Move along.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

’” ( In related self-driving car regulation news : “ Google ’s ‘Cozy’ Relationship With Driverless-Car Regulators.” On the horizon: makerspaces, online learning, robotics, VR, artificial intelligence, and wearables. Coding Bootcamps (The Once and Future “For-Profit Higher Ed”).

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

” Via Geekwire : “ Google quietly donates $10M to University of Washington in another major computer science gift.” Via the AP : “How Google Chromebooks conquered schools.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Accreditation and Certification. ” That giant is Navient.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

AltSchool, a private school startup, was founded in 2014 by Max Ventilla, a former Google executive. in 2011, a PR stunt that the company hoped would demonstrate how well it could handle Q&A. More details on Mark Zuckerberg’s education investment portfolio can be found at funding.hackeducation.com.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 18, 2017

Tune into the Contrafabulists podcast this weekend, when Kin Lane and I will discuss the response (or lack thereof) from the tech industry, including Cloudflare , Spotify , Squarespace , GoDaddy , Google , the EFF , and others. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via Go To Hellman : “ PubMed Lets Google Track User Searches.”

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DECEMBER 1, 2017

.” According to Edsurge , Knewton is now a courseware company and not a “robot tutor in the sky.” Via Think Progress : “Textbook co-authored by Roy Moore in 2011 says women shouldn’t run for office.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Moore is Alabama’s Republican Senate candidate.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2016

11, 2001, has not been in use since 2011, so the move is largely symbolic and appeared to be aimed at distancing the departing administration from any effort by the new president to revive the program, known as the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, or Nseers.” “Could robots be marking your homework ?”

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DECEMBER 2, 2017

But I wanted to consider too why the stories we repeatedly tell about education and education technology were so fanciful – stories about impending disruptions and revolutions and robot teachers and brain zappers and so on. The image above from Google Trends helps demonstrate how popular the phrase has become in the intervening months.

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