Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. Wonder Workshop (robotics) – $41 million.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

It’s a reaction, I’d say, to the current obsession with artificial intelligence and a response to all the stories we were told this year about robots on the cusp of replacing, out-“thinking,” and out-working us. I wrote about this company, along with its better known competitor ClassDojo, in an article in The Baffler.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

This post is actually intended to supplement the “Cycle of Learning Innovation” model that will be publishing tomorrow (7.7.2015), which means this is less about analysis and context and more about the examples. ” The article goes on to point out some examples of this kind of dilemma, and how certain businesses responded.

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

” asks The Economist in an article about coding bootcamps. Anil Dash and Gina Trapani announced they’re closing down their social media analytics product ThinkUp. That is, major social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter increasingly made it difficult for ThinkUp to work with their APIs.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 25, 2017

” Via The Nation : “ Trump’s Border Security May Search Your Social Media by ‘Tone’ ” Via Education Week : “Setback for DACA Supporters Places Program’s Fate Squarely in Trump’s Hands.” No disclosure in this article that Edsurge shares an investor with VIPKID.

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Hack Education

APRIL 21, 2017

Disclosure alert : no mention that Edsurge, which published this article, shares an investor with Class Central.). ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via Techcrunch : “ Robot tutor Musio makes its retail debut in Japan.” Via iNews : “ University to monitor student social media to gauge well-being.”

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Education MOOC Facebook Report 45

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

I’d hardly know where to begin in writing one, but I want to open this particular article – one that focuses, in part, on the whole “everyone should learn to code” craze – recognizing his great contribution to educational computing as well as his loss. Read Mindstorms. ” ).

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Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via Class Central : “Analysis of 450 MOOC -Based Microcredentials Reveals Many Options But Little Consistency.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “ Robots in the classroom ? National) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via Inside Higher Ed : “The State Department is proposing to ask additional questions of visa applicants regarding their social media usage.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Education MOOC E-rate Facebook 45

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Educause has published an article about “ The Mastery Transcript Consortium ,” a group of independent schools that are “reinventing” the college transcript. (I’m Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via TeacherCast : “Why Teachers Will Never Be Replaced By Robots.”

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Education ProctorU Company Report 51

Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. E-Literate claimed this week that “ Canvas Surpasses Blackboard Learn in US Market Share” – with some additional analysis about “What’s Important about the Blackboard Market Share News.” Sounds like fun.

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Education Khan Academy Blackboard Report 43

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via The Guardian : “ Student Loans Company ‘spied on vulnerable students’ social media’ ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Education Pearson Company Blackboard 43

Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” I’m considered an “expert” here (among others) featured in IHE with thoughts and questions and analysis on the “ Purdue - Kaplan marriage.” ” Nope, robots will not be doing this job of content moderation , as Facebook recently boasted at its developer conference. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. There’s an article in the venture philanthropy section below about how private student loans are being pitched as “impact investing.” ” The Atlantic on what it’s like being a parent of a social media star.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “Kids connect with robot reading partners ,” says the PR office of the University of Wisconsin Madison. National) Education Politics. The Business of Job Training.

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Education MOOC Kaplan Robotics 46

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

” “Frustrated with how colleges have handled their claims of sexual abuse , more students are turning to social media to publicize their cases,” Inside Higher Ed reports. The map draws on only 100,000 articles from 180 journals and only dates back to 2005 because that is the grand sum of education technology research.

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

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. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.”

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

This is part five of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” As in previous years, it would be quite easy to fill a whole article in this series on “ data insecurity ,” on the data breaches and cyberattacks that continue to plague education – both schools and software.

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Data Education Software Social Media 78

Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

These have all been separate articles in each series. But this year, I’m reorganizing my analysis of these “trends,” partly because I think they can all be subsumed under the larger theme of “the new economy.” We must encourage people to pursue “robot resistant” majors in college.

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Robotics MOOC Training Industry 59

Hack Education

MARCH 2, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Alex Usher reviews Robot-Proof : Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. National) Education Politics. Via The New York Times : “ Trump Wants to Arm Teachers.

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Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

Department of State has received emergency approval from the Office of Management and Budget to collect additional information regarding certain visa applicants ’ travel and employment histories, familial connections, and social media usage in accordance with a notice it posted in the Federal Register May 4.

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Education MOOC Report Company 48

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

“ From the article that ”innovative teaching practice" appears to be project-based learning. ” The article is accompanied by a photo of a classroom full of Asian students – as if Asian is not American. Maybe social media is broken, Cathy O’Neil suggests. Education in the Courts.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

EDITED TO ADD: Apparently, The Guardian article is not quite right. Via Zion Market Research : “ Massive Open Online Course Market : Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecasts 2016-2024.” The social media platform had raised $2.5 Robots and Other (Ed-Tech) Science Fiction.

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MOOC Education Robotics Report 40

Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” And I am not even linking to the National Review article promoting this racist crap. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. National) Education Politics. ” Here’s the readout from the Department of Education.

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