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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Techcrunch : “Twitter COO Anthony Noto resigns to become SoFi CEO.” Via Campus Technology : “ Knewton Releases $44 Adaptive Digital Textbooks.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” “ Ziro ’s robotics kit for kids now works with Alexa ,” says Techcrunch.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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A new project from the Learning Policy Institute and EducationCounsel : “Reimagining College Access: Performance Assessments From K–12 Through Higher Education.” ” More on teen social media usage, this time from Buzzfeed : “‘Tweetdecking’ Is Taking Over Twitter. Go, School Sports Team! .”

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Education Technology and the Ideology of Personalization

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.” Some 20 Facebook engineers work on the software, and according to The Washington Post , the student information it tracks and stores is not housed on Facebook servers, although Facebook does have access to the data. Nevertheless, Knewton claims Knewton’s personalized learning products work.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Um, they do.) Despite a few anecdotes, they’re really not.).

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. It announced this year it was “ phasing out ” its reliance on Knewton provide those algorithms.). I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. They’re amazing. Not sure anyone else did.)