Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” In his book, Srnicek identifies five kinds of platforms: advertising platforms (like Google and Facebook), cloud platforms (like Salesforce and Amazon Web Services), industrial platforms (like GE and Siemens), product platforms (like Spotify), and lean platforms (like Uber and AirBnB). Education’s Proto-Platforms.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

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? The bill will be a massive revisions to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

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Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

So, for example, if you’re building timelines, we want you to do that with assembly tools that articulate well with WordPress, Google, and other kinds of platforms. And if you’re using maps, we want you to use Google Maps or GIS and those kinds of things. We oftentimes kind of compare the back-end experience of what we do to eHarmony.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

And what does that oft-repeated phrase “ learn to code ” even mean ? The work is also supported by companies including Apple, Google and Expedia, as well as education organizations including the CollegeBoard, Teach For America and STEMx.” It’s a problem of pay and promotion and culture.

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Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

Sea Monkeys, x-ray googles, and invisibility helmets, much like all education technology products, base a lot of of their marketing on assurances and performances of scientific amazement and technological progress. (In What are virtual learning environments? What are we promising? What else is really a humbug? What is virtual reality?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Edsurge’s Jeff Young and Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill both asked industry analyst Trace Urdan for his take. ” I’m more interested in hearing about segregation and state laws in Mississippi than the adaptive learning software a school is using. . “A bold move,” says Inside Higher Ed.

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