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. But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?).

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

It was one of two social media messages – the other a Twitter photo of Tunsil smoking marijuana through a gas mark – that were posted during the NFL draft. ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. I really don’t understand how the investment analysis firm categorizes ed-tech.

Education 52

Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

A hacked school Twitter account in Florida. 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.

Data 78

Data Education Software Social Media 78

Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Twitter announced big layoffs this week – 9% of its staff – and said it would shutter its video app Vine. ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “When the Teaching Assistant Is a Robot.” Via New America : “The Promise and Peril of Predictive Analytics in Higher Education.”

Education 40

Education Pearson Blackboard Survey 40