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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. Are any education technologies, for that matter? Andreessen’s definition does begin to get at some of the reasons why platforms have been so appealing to investors – ideologically as much as technologically.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. Because technology imperialism. National) Education Politics.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via E-Literate : “ Hawai’i Senate Bill: Would mandate OER material for all U Hawai’i system courses.” ” And later in the week, an update : “Hawai’i Senate OER Bill Update: Amended language saves the day.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

technologizing” the government. Here’s a sponsored article , paid for by the Gates Foundation and published by Edsurge promoting the school and its technology.). Stanford University’s Larry Cuban continues his analysis of behavioral management tool ClassDojo. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. 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.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. IBM wants us to believe that Watson is incredibly powerful – powerful enough, even, to search 1000 OER. ” Via TeacherCast : “Why Teachers Will Never Be Replaced By Robots.” ” Via Campus Technology : “Survey of Tech in Education Finds Mixed Results.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

*Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Getting Smart and the XQ Institute have released a “landscape analysis of competency-based education.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Oh my god, it’s almost time to start working on that year-end project.).