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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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There may be no better example of this in 2017 than “personalized learning.” “Personalized learning” has powerful advocates, least of which US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos who talks about it as part of her broader initiative to “rethink school.” Manufacturing Trends.

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Rationalizing Those 'Irrational' Fears of inBloom

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This article first appeared on Points, a Data & Society publication in February 2017. The claims about “personalized learning” attainable through more data collection and data analysis remain primarily marketing hype. Indeed, “personalized learning” is itself a rather nebulous concept.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

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The company has partnered with advocacy organizations to produce white papers at the 2017 and 2016 Digital Citizenship Summits and provides online monitoring software to schools. are still available, along with additional reports to measure reading habits, word count, project involvement, news article consumption, and more.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“Trump Taps Common-Core Foe Mick Zais for No. on Election Day 2016, closed at post-election high of $17.85 ” (The narrative structure of these sorts of articles is always the same: crisis occurs; tech will save the day. “ Is Homework Compatible With Personalized Learning? 2 Post at Ed.

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

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I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.) Furthermore, at launch, Pokémon Go demanded users sign over a great deal of personal data and grant permissions to the app that, for a time , gave it access to a user’s entire Google account.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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There’s less than a month left of the 2016 Presidential campaign and The End can’t come soon enough. According to excerpts of speeches published by Wikileaks – stolen data – Clinton called the Common Core a “political failure” in a speech she gave to Knewton. Presidential Campaign Politics.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Not ed-tech per se (unless you recognize that “personalized learning” is greyballing), but according to The New York Times , “ Uber Faces Federal Inquiry Over Use of Greyball Tool to Evade Authorities.” “ Social-Emotional Learning Is the Rage in K–12. ” Immigration and Education. .”

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