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Jeff Bezos Wants to Go to the Moon. Then, Public Education.

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While Google, Microsoft and Apple have been pursuing their ambitions in K-12 and higher education for more than a decade, Amazon has mostly remained at the sidelines. These learning centers look less like classrooms and more like co-working spaces, with lounges, group meeting rooms, individual study spaces, playgrounds and makerspaces.

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Ed Tech News, a New Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The Rise of the Low-Cost Tablet & the Promise It May Hold for Learning BYOD: Does It Solve or Does It Worsen K-12 Tech Woes? Can Google Challenge Over-Zealous Web Filtering at Schools? Launches Rated JPG reports that beloved toy-maker LEGO is building its own social network.

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How to pass the WSET Diploma D3 exam on the Wines of the World

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Affectionately dubbed the “Mother-of-all exams” by some wine nerds, the WSET Diploma’s third module (D3) on the principal still wines of the world is the Olympus Mons of the WSET solar system, making the other modules look like mildly inflamed pimples in comparison. Plus, we’ve formatted them for optimal learning.

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

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If you want to track your learners, if you want to see the progress of your learners, if you want to bring in the information from the quizzes into your learning-management systems, then you have to buy. And if you’re using maps, we want you to use Google Maps or GIS and those kinds of things.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via The Verge : “James Damore sues Google for allegedly discriminating against conservative white men.” ” 69% of Google’s employees are men. Via Techcrunch : “ URB-E ’s launching a scooter sharing network at college campuses and hotels.” 56% are white. The Business of Financial Aid.

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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.” ” Via Bloomberg : “Inside Google ’s Shadow Workforce.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2010. And everyone clicks and rages and snipes all over again.

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