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Racism, Consumerism, and a Conversation With My Son About the Future of Diversity

Edsurge

With the recent death of George Floyd, America has re-engaged in a recurring dialogue about racism, equality, injustice, systematic prejudices and unconscious bias present in our society. But what if Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok were present in those times? Followed by: “What happened?”

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Searching for the Ability to Think: Training our Kids to Go Past Google

The CoolCatTeacher

5 Ways to Teach Students to Think From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Next week, my tenth graders will have to invent a new way to access the Internet. In other words, they learned and built their own knowledge base. We’ve been doing this project eight years now.

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Clippy and the History of the Future of Educational Chatbots

Hack Education

The Twitter bot was built to “learn” by parroting the words and phrases from the other Twitter users that interacted with it, and – because, you know, Twitter – those users quickly realized that they could teach Tay to say some really horrible things. Templated knowledge. Templated writing.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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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