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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 17 Edition)

Doug Levin

Zeynep Tufekci shares her experiences more broadly (beyond education) in this provocative talk from June 2016: I’ll be spending some time later this week with friends and colleagues at the EdTech Efficacy Research Academic Symposium and look forward to the dialogue. What do I mean? Will It Survive Trump’s FCC?

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

Do you know that feeling when you are told your questions about student privacy are unfounded by a representative of a company that earns 86% of its total revenue from advertising? “I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link].

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5 Reasons to Address Cyber Security

edWeb.net

Cabrera was named Superintendent at El Paso Independent School District in Texas in 2013. Under his leadership, Bristol Tennessee City Schools has embraced personalized learning through an effort that includes providing laptops for students to use at school and at home. Prior to EPISD, Juan served as a school law attorney.

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

Hack Education

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. Handing over data, often quite thoughtlessly, has become par for the course – in education and in society more generally. Students cheat, we’re repeatedly told.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. By 2016, Glam Media, rebranded as Mode Media, shut its doors , transferring ownership of Ning to Cyndx. And “free” doesn’t last.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

While it’s banned in 28 states, “more than 110,000 students across the country were subjected to corporal punishments in 2013–14, according to the latest version of the Department’s Civil Rights Data Collection.” C8xzJTP2yQ — The Baltimore Sun (@baltimoresun) November 21, 2016.