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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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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. Manufacturing Trends.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Inside Higher Ed : “The as-yet unnamed online university resulting from the proposed acquisition of Kaplan University by Purdue University has set discounted tuition rates for in-state students and free tuition for Purdue employees.” Via The 74 : “ Montessori Was the Original Personalized Learning.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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More on the for-profit formerly known as Kaplan University in the online education section below. ” This new school is a result of Purdue’s acquisition of the for-profit Kaplan University. Subscription boxes for teachers are somehow “ personalized learning.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Not ed-tech per se (unless you recognize that “personalized learning” is greyballing), but according to The New York Times , “ Uber Faces Federal Inquiry Over Use of Greyball Tool to Evade Authorities.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. For more news about robots not taking jobs, see the HR section above.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via USA Today : “Analysis shows 147 college football programs had at least one player diagnosed with CTE.” Ed Week’s Ben Herold is a sly one because here is a headline in the form of a question that most assuredly can be answered “yes”: “ Are Companies Overselling Personalized Learning?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” More on the Afghan robotics team in the contest section below. Kaplan is closing Dev Bootcamp , a coding bootcamp it acquired in 2014. for Robotics Contest.” Edsurge profiles “ personalized learning ” software used in a virtual school that has some 450 incarcerated students.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Michael Feldstein argued that the “meaninglessness” of Purdue’s claims were important for the ed-tech community to grapple with, in no small part because many other learning analytics systems had been modeled on the Course Signals work. As the decade went on, the arguments for surveilling students’ social media have changed several times.

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