Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

” Well, this will be useful to “personalize learning,” won’t it. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. The “adaptive learning” company has raised $23.5 Via Chalkbeat : “How new evidence bolsters the case for California’s education policy rebellion.”

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JULY 27, 2018

Good thing IBM Watson isn’t making any claims about “personalized learning” or partnering with beloved shows like Sesame Street. “The RISE Package for R: Reducing Time Through the OER Continuous Improvement Cycle” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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MAY 13, 2016

. “High school students will be allowed to carry mace in the 2016–2017 school year after the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education agreed to remove prohibitive language and amend its policy,” the Salisbury Post reports. Via Techcrunch : “ Lilwil ’s personalized learning engine teaches teachers how to teach.”

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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. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Education Politics. ” Oh.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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 sale, the FTC contended, would violate ConnectEDU’s own privacy policy, and it requested that users be notified so they could request their data be destroyed.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

And “personalization” is the underlying promise of the new education software Facebook is itself building. These two examples highlight quite well the mental gymnastics necessary to believe that a “personalized” product is actually personalized. It’s just the latest way to describe what B.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Says He Will Lead Federal Task Force on Higher-Ed Policy,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. Via Campus Technology : “ Harvard Tailoring the MOOC Experience With Adaptive Learning.” “ inBloom ’s collapse undermined personalized learning and data standards efforts,” says danah boyd. (I’m

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

More federal stuff: Inside Higher Ed on restructuring at the US Department of Education : “Proposed reorganization would eliminate office of under secretary, which oversaw higher ed policy for much of the Obama and George W. The “ invisible ” “adaptive learning” company has raised $38.7

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Parla.ai – “No need to spend money on teachers – I’ll help you learn English effectively and for free!” “This Machine Learning-Powered Software Teaches Kids To Be Better Writers,” Fast Company claims. ” Daniel Willingham on learning styles. .”

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AUGUST 4, 2017

” And by “take on,” that means “investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants.” ” More on Trump’s proposed immigration policies in the immigration section below. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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JULY 21, 2017

” “ Personalized learning ” equals cutting the teacher workforce in Oklahoma. Edsurge on “Bridging the School-to-Business Gap: What Public Schools Can Learn From Industry.” Via NPR : “Students Compete In First-Ever International High School Robotics Competition.” Competition.”

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JANUARY 26, 2017

.” “The California State Legislature is now considering two bills that would build a database firewall to block the flow of personal information from state and local government to federal efforts to deport immigrants and register people based on their religion, ethnicity, or national origin,” according to the EFF.

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