Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Platforms provide the substructure for the “gig economy” and the “sharing economy”; they’re the economic engine of social media; they’re the architecture of the “attention economy” and the inspiration for claims about the “end of ownership.” Pearson is Not a Platform.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

But it’s down from the record-setting year in 2015 – down by about $1 billion. Wonder Workshop (robotics) – $41 million. Robotics , with ~ $99 million in funding. Pearson, for one.) Number added to the “ed-tech dead pool”: 4. The amount of investment is up from last year by over $1 billion.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot.

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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. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Textbook Publishers vs. Boundless. Online Grade Portals.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Despite the press coverage – the funding announcement was made on Oprah – things didn’t really go as planned , as journalist Dale Russakoff has recounted in her 2015 book The Prize. Pearson claims Pearson’s personalized learning products work. It partnered with Pearson.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

.” That’s because the stories told this year to keep us hustling and to keep up imagining a certain kind of future are almost all about robots. Over and over and over and over and over and over and over again we were told “robots are coming for your jobs.” We must prepare preschoolers for an automated future.

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Hack Education

JUNE 3, 2016

City native and rap superstar Fetty Wap released a music video last week for his latest single, ‘Wake Up,’ filmed at Eastside High School, according to social media posts by the rapper. ” Also via The New York Times : “A Mission to Bring STEM Skills, and Robots, to Children in West Africa.”

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