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. Arguably, one of the best candidates is the learning management system. .”

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

” Among its cargo: a Facebook / Internet.org satellite that was supposed to provide Internet access Facebook to African countries. “ Marvel Announces Science, Tech, and Math-Devoted Comic Book Covers,” Popular Science reports. This and other findings are in the latest Pew Research on “ Book Reading 2016.”

Education 52

Education Coursera Elsevier MOOC 52

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APRIL 14, 2017

” The winners of this year’s Pulitzer Prizes include Harvard University’s Matthew Desmond for his book Evicted and the Salt Lake Tribune’s staff for its reporting on sexual assault at BYU. ” Facebook gets in the “ literacy ” business. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Not really.

Education 44

Education E-rate MOOC Data 44

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot. and Facebook Inc.

Technology 85

Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

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FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Via The New York Times : “Early Facebook and Google Employees Form Coalition to Fight What They Built.” ” “ Facebook ’s app for kids should freak parents out,” says MIT Technology Review. ” Well, this will be useful to “personalize learning,” won’t it. million total.

Lenovo 51

Lenovo Education Facebook MOOC 51

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AUGUST 4, 2018

Via The Washington Post : “ A South Carolina school district just abolished snow days – and will make students learn online.” Or just have them read a book. ” Via Techcrunch : “ Facebook launches a digital literacy library aimed at educators.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

Education 43

Education Pearson Company Blackboard 43

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. And digital distribution has replaced the role of a library as a central hub for obtaining the containers of such knowledge: books.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145