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Education Looks Eastward: Snapshots from Beijing's Global Education Technology Summit

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China had a reputation for copying technology from Silicon Valley, but these days the country has developed its own unique technology environment—what a new book by Kai-Fu Lee, former head of Google China, calls an “alternate internet universe.” An estimated 34 percent of all mobile internet traffic in China flows through WeChat.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

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My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web.

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OPINION: The pandemic will leave the next generation of Black tech talent behind

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Google is not going to hire coders who cannot code. Over six years, from 2014 to 2020, Google increased its percentage of Black tech workers from 1.5 Facebook’s 2020 diversity report showed the company’s Black share of tech workers at 1.7 Facebook’s 2020 diversity report showed the company’s Black share of tech workers at 1.7

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Change Agents: Tech & Learning?s Most Influential People in EdTech In 2018

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Adults tend to underestimate the younger generation, thinking that we don’t know what we’re doing, but I for one have used Facebook ads and Google AdWords to promote SSU. STACEY CHILDRESS No one knows what the economy will look like when today’s kindergarteners graduate from high school in 2030.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Economy by 2030.” ” From the Google blog : “ Google Science Fair 2018 : Resources for educators to get ideas flowing.” ” Also from the Google blog : “More tools for homeschoolers.” “What Happened to Facebook ’s Grand Plan to Wire the World?”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Google ’s got our kids,” says The Outline. Google had a big event this week – you know, the one where tech journalists do the company’s marketing work for them by writing up every announcement made on stage in its own, separate article. . Via The New York Times : “ Facebook Adds A.I.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via The New York Times : “ Kremlin Cash Behind Billionaire’s Twitter and Facebook Investments.” ” Via The Guardian : “ Russia funded Facebook and Twitter investments through Kushner associate.” Facebook breaks democracy and then turns around and sells you the fix.