MindShift

JUNE 7, 2016

Check out the “dashboards” inside programs like Google Apps for Education, or freestanding gradebook apps like JumpRope, or ClassDojo, focused on behavior. Software also collects information on students all by itself. Companies like Google pledge not to track the content of schoolwork for the purposes of advertising.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Politics and Policies This week marks the 32nd anniversary of the signing of the Department of Education Organization Act, the law signed by President Jimmy Carter that created the Department of Education. Updates and Upgrades Google announced a change to the way it will sell its new Chromebooks. Khan told the attendees at Web 2.0

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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? That class is produced by language learning software maker Rosetta Stone. What makes this newsworthy?

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

” It’s now unclear, observers say, if the FTC can regulate companies like Google or Verizon. ” Via Mic : “ Pretoria Girls High School students are protesting racist hair policy , code of conduct.” ” Via The Atlantic : “A Federal Judge’s Ruling Against North Carolina ’s HB2.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Via The New York Times : “Early Facebook and Google Employees Form Coalition to Fight What They Built.” Doesn’t seem like any journalists caught this, tho: A couple of things about that group of former FB and Google employees who have founded the Center for Humane Tech: 1. .” ” $3000 for three headsets.

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DECEMBER 11, 2016

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.” ” “Trump’s neo industrial policies won’t create these jobs,” he added. Google’s Alphabet Inc. and Facebook Inc.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

” Via The Wall Street Journal : “More Schools Are Buying ‘ Active-Shooter ’ Insurance Policies.” The company: RIB Software SE. ” Via The Wall Street Journal : “Employers Eager to Hire Try a New Policy: ‘ No Experience Necessary ’ ” Contests and Awards. .”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. And certainly the expectation of many ed-tech products (and increasingly school policy) is that parents will do just this — participate in the incessant monitoring of student data. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). 3D Printing.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

Via Chalkbeat : “ DeVos criticizes Bush-Obama policies , saying it’s time to overhaul conventional schooling.” A new project from the Learning Policy Institute and EducationCounsel : “Reimagining College Access: Performance Assessments From K–12 Through Higher Education.” Monstrous, really.

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APRIL 28, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Trump Orders Review of Education Policies to Strengthen Local Control.” ” I’m more interested in hearing about segregation and state laws in Mississippi than the adaptive learning software a school is using. Education Politics. ” Oh. Cyber Charters , Study Finds.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

And “personalization” is the underlying promise of the new education software Facebook is itself building. Basecamp is essentially a learning management system (with the adjective “personalized” appended to it). AltSchool, a private school startup, was founded in 2014 by Max Ventilla, a former Google executive.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

” Google announces it is “Funding 75,000 Udacity scholarships to bridge the digital skills gap.” For Online College Programs, Google Is Kingmaker.” Parla.ai – “No need to spend money on teachers – I’ll help you learn English effectively and for free!” No, actually.

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JUNE 24, 2016

Via the Providence Journal : “Three teachers have resigned from Blackstone Valley Prep after the charter school confirmed allegations that they posted hurtful messages about some of their students” into a Google Doc shared with the entire school. Learn-to-code startup Piper has raised $2.1 “Can U.S. million total.

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