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(The Very Last) Hack Education Weekly News

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This is the last Hack Education Weekly News of the year because next week I am publishing a very abbreviated review of 2018, and I won’t need to study in detail what happens each week anymore. Via The New York Times : “ Facebook Says Bug Opened Access to Private Photos.” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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The stories out of Facebook just keep getting worse. I mean, I’m just glad that no one from Facebook is involved in education, ed-tech, ed reform, or education journalism. — Rochelle (@Rochelle) November 25, 2018. RELX is the former weapons dealer known as Reed Elsevier. What are these jobs?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of ScienceDirect Topics, an information platform that has been compared to Wikipedia.” ” Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg will offer a scholarship “to ‘cut through’ unequal access to opportunity.” Trillion in 2018.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Techcrunch : “ Facebook launches Mentorships , matching people within Groups to help them guide each other.” Via Buzzfeed : “Internal Facebook Note: Here Is A ‘Psychological Trick’ To Target Teens.” Elsevier has acquired Aries Systems. The Business of Job Training.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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. “The Future of AI, Data, and Education,” says Udacity , as it announces a new advisory board… You have got to be f **g kidding me pic.twitter.com/cPiW548WHR — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) February 21, 2018. pic.twitter.com/xtYTB3rE2F — rat girl (@stephdriggs) February 21, 2018. Via the Hypothes.is

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The New York Times : “Turn Off Messenger Kids , Health Experts Plead to Facebook.” It’s 2018, and folks are still so desperate to make VR a thing. Elsevier on “The Augmented Researcher: What Does 2018 Hold for AI in Publishing ?” .” The company, which has raised some $107.4