2017 Facebook OER Robotics 
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
I was inspired, I think, to select that topic because talk of “platforms” was incredibly popular in Silicon Valley – it had been for a while – as companies strove to become “the next Facebook.” Think Facebook. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 22, 2017
If we look back on 2017 in educational technology, some of the biggest surprises were political and cultural. In 2017 the Trump administration did not embrace free tuition, to put it mildly, but localities did in various forms, from New York state to Providence, Rhode Island.
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Hack Education
APRIL 13, 2018
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress this week about privacy, data, monopoly power, and regulations. And there’s more Facebook-related news in several of the sections below. ” Via The Verge : “ Facebook -backed lawmakers are pushing to gut privacy law.” (National) Education Politics.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 22, 2017
Two school districts in two states are scaling back their use of the Facebook -built Summit Public Schools ’ learning management system. ProPublica with more news about Facebook and discrimination : “Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads.” Billion in 2017.”
Hack Education
NOVEMBER 24, 2017
” Via ProPublica : “ Facebook (Still) Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude Users by Race.” ” (Related, this assignment from Davidson College’s Mark Sample : “Hacking Facebook’s Ad Network for Justice.”). The business of OER. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.
Hack Education
JUNE 23, 2017
“Mark Zuckerberg just unveiled Facebook ’s new mission statement,” says The Verge. Via Buzzfeed : “ Violence On Facebook Live Is Worse Than You Thought.” ” Because, you know, Facebook’s mission is “community.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Where’s the outrage?”
Hack Education
MAY 5, 2017
Via Gizmodo : “ Facebook Will Add 3,000 More People to Watch Murders and Suicides.” ” Nope, robots will not be doing this job of content moderation , as Facebook recently boasted at its developer conference. “ OER-Enabled Pedagogy ” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. Well, not quite.
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