Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

I pointed to several historical examples of how the collection, categorization, and analysis of data led to discriminatory and even deadly political practices – racism and the US Census, for example, and the history of IBM and how its statistical analysis helped the Nazis identify Jews.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “Analysis of Georgia Tech ’s MOOC-inspired online master’s in computer science suggests that institutions can successfully deliver high-quality, low-cost degrees to students at scale.” Lots of news this week about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. ” “ Robot abuse ”?!

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Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

“Mark Zuckerberg just unveiled Facebook ’s new mission statement,” says The Verge. Via Buzzfeed : “ Violence On Facebook Live Is Worse Than You Thought.” ” Because, you know, Facebook’s mission is “community.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Where’s the outrage?”

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DECEMBER 14, 2018

” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via The New York Times : “ Facebook Says Bug Opened Access to Private Photos.” Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “ Digital Tools Are Everywhere – and Largely Unused – in Many Schools, New Analysis Shows.” Now It’s Shutting Down.”

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APRIL 21, 2017

Via the Udacity blog : “ Udacity Launches Mobile Developer Education with Facebook at F8.” ” I didn’t pay close attention to Facebook ’s developer event this week. Via MIT Technology Review : “Facebook’s Sci-Fi Plan for Typing with Your Mind and Hearing with Your Skin.”

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JULY 20, 2018

Via Class Central : “Analysis of 450 MOOC -Based Microcredentials Reveals Many Options But Little Consistency.” ” Just grand that Facebook is running a bunch of media literacy and digital training courses for community colleges. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “ Robots in the classroom ?

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Getting Smart and the XQ Institute have released a “landscape analysis of competency-based education.” The folks at Getting Smart promote CS and SEL resources on Facebook for Education. Why would one ever suspect that Facebook is simply a terrible idea for schools or for democratic institutions?! ” Testing.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

“ Facebook Funded Most of the Experts Who Vetted Messenger Kids ,” Wired’s Nitasha Tiku reports. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “ Teaching assistant robots will reinvent academia,” Times Higher Education claims. And there’s a story on Misty in the robots section above.).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. I was inspired, I think, to select that topic because talk of “platforms” was incredibly popular in Silicon Valley – it had been for a while – as companies strove to become “the next Facebook.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

schools in recent years, according to an Associated Press analysis, but few have shown any indication that they’ll follow the lead of businesses that are cutting ties with the group following last month’s massacre at a Florida high school.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. GradTouch has raised ~$1.3

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

Analysis from Mindwires Consulting’s Michael Feldstein : “‘Alternative Pathways:’ How to Rethink Vocational Education.” Speaking of imperialism, The Guardian covers a report from Global Media which describes Facebook’s Free Basics program as “ digital colonialism.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Via The New York Times : “ Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share.” I dunno… Via Techcrunch : “ IBM led on patents in 2017, Facebook broke into top 50 for the first time.” ” Also via Techcrunch : “ Facebook brings Messenger Kids to Fire tablets.”

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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.” Via Gizmodo : “ Facebook Will Add 3,000 More People to Watch Murders and Suicides.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Well, not quite.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot. and Facebook Inc.

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Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via The New York Times : “ Facebook Says Cambridge Analytica Harvested Data of Up to 87 Million Users.” Reminder that Facebook built the Summit Learning Platform.). Via The Washington Post : “ Facebook and the very real problem of keeping student data private.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” Via The New York Times : “ Kremlin Cash Behind Billionaire’s Twitter and Facebook Investments.” ” Via The Guardian : “ Russia funded Facebook and Twitter investments through Kushner associate.” Facebook breaks democracy and then turns around and sells you the fix. ” No.

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MAY 18, 2018

Via Techcrunch : “ Facebook launches Youth Portal to educate teens on the platform, how their data is being used.” ” The Verge tries to take a slightly skeptical angle : “If Facebook wants to appeal to teens, it might start by rethinking its new ‘Youth Portal’ ” Still more advertorial content.

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A divided federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s ruling that a Minnesota community college was justified when it kicked a student out of a nursing program because of Facebook comments administrators deemed to be unprofessional and threatening to fellow students.”

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

” Among its cargo: a Facebook / Internet.org satellite that was supposed to provide Internet access Facebook to African countries. Via WaPo : “Study: Robot baby dolls don’t curb teen pregnancies. Robots probably won’t take your jobs. ” Education in the Courts. Icon credits: The Noun Project

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Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

Via Reuters : “ Apple , Google , Facebook skip legal challenge to new travel ban.” The Summit Learning Platform is the learning management system that Facebook had been building for the Summit Public Schools charter chain. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2016

From the Department of Education’s press release : “New analysis released today by the U.S. Inside Higher Ed covers Billy Willson’s viral “I’m quitting school” rant on Facebook, in which he claimed he was leaving Kansas State University with a 4.0 “Could robots be marking your homework ?”

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. There was a regularly updated Facebook page, a Twitter account, as well as a LinkedIn profile for its supposed president. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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JULY 13, 2018

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.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Sounds like fun. ” Markets responded.

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techlearning

AUGUST 30, 2018

In truth, the term AI has (arguably) gained more notoriety for storylines of killer robots (and the occasional Wall-e) hell-bent on destroying mankind than for its practical use and business benefits. Since then, AI has experienced a largely stop-start existence, principally due to sporadic funding and below-par technology.

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

That is, major social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter increasingly made it difficult for ThinkUp to work with their APIs. ” Via the Hechinger Report : “Can a wall-climbing robot teach your kid to code?” Who owns your data – whether it’s social media or school-related?

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AUGUST 4, 2018

billion over 10 years, according to an Education Department cost analysis, Politico reported this week.” ” Via Techcrunch : “ Facebook launches a digital literacy library aimed at educators.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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JUNE 2, 2017

Via The Next Web : “ Facebook is letting Groups create online learning courses – what could possibly go wrong?” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” asks The Chronicle of Higher Education , with a question that’s probably better suited for the Betteridge’s Law of Headlines section below.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Speaking of feedback, Inside Higher Ed also profiles a sentiment analysis surveillance tool , developed at the University of St. I’ve got all the “learn-to-code” news in the job training section, because let’s be honest… Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Don’t be ridiculous.

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

And the word “intelligence” is now used – oh so casually – to describe so-called “thinking machines”: algorithms, robots, AI. You don’t have to tell Facebook. Facebook knows.” Does the data collection and data analysis undertaken by schools work in a similar way?

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Replacement limbs may not strictly be accepted as a merging of technology and humanity, unless they are robotic limbs. He sees Facebook and other social networks undermining and devaluing friendships. In the final analysis though, it is mind amplification that is the ultimate goal for humankind's future enhancement.

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