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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Launches Rated JPG reports that beloved toy-maker LEGO is building its own social network. While Kno has fixed its issues, it appears as though Stanza, a popular e-reader app, will remain in the app graveyard. Lesson plans can be shared via LearnBoost, but also via Twitter or Facebook and can be embedded on websites and/or blogs.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” Via The New York Times : “ New Mexico Outlaws School ‘Lunch Shaming’ ” Via Buzzfeed : “ California Shows The Rest Of The Country How To Boost Kindergarten Vaccination Rates.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “How Open E-Credentials Will Transform Higher Education.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The department’s proposed language would require a student borrower to demonstrate clear and convincing evidence that their college intended to deceive them or had a reckless disregard for the truth in making claims about job-placement rates, credit transferability and other outcomes.” ” “What Can the CEO of a $1.6-Billion

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” (Juul is an e-cigarette that markets its product to teens and peddles social emotional learning content.). ” Via Cleveland.com : “National e-school figure to test new approach to online learning here in Ohio.” ” My god, that guy. An update on Mark Janus of Janus v. Upgrades and Downgrades.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.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. To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2010.

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And The Next Web headline makes for… something: “ Facebook and Google could be allowed to award university degrees.” Via The Verge : “Lawsuit claims Facebook illegally scanned private messages.” “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “More than 50 groups have signed a letter demanding that Candice E. Rebecca Schuman is back with her annual “ Rate My JIL ,” where she skewers the higher ed job market. Via Patheos : “ BYU-Idaho Professor Fired After Defending LGBT Rights in Private Facebook Post.”