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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

If it’s free to play with, and easy to learn about through communities working to improve the open source code, the assumption is that more people (and younger people) will start to get interested in working with AI. " says Google Family Link manager Saurabh Sharma. There is reason to wonder, nonetheless. " Readers respond.with gusto.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” At least the e-cigarette company (which targets teens) offers a social-emotional learning curriculum, right? ” Via the AP : “ District of Columbia Mayor Muriel E. Billion in Android Antitrust Case.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “ Robots in the classroom ?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

“To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2010. The story examined a proposed practice: “Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).”

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