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(This Is Not a Morphology of) The Monsters of Education Technology

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” (This time, of course, with an Android phone strapped to their face.). ” Robots are coming for our jobs. The robots of education technology boast of “machine learning,” then create frameworks and models for learning that they try to fit humans into in turn. The ghosts of broken promises. Montessori.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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More on last week’s Purdue and Kaplan deal: “ Purdue ’s deal for Kaplan U trades a long-term business relationship for low up-front costs while raising worries – especially among faculty groups – about blurred lines between public and private higher ed,” Inside Higher Ed reports. .”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot,” The Wall Street Journal gushed in 2016 , documenting an experiment undertaken at Georgia Tech in which a chatbot called “Jill Watson” answered questions in a course’s online forum. (He Robot essay graders — they grade just the same as human ones. Chatbot Instructors.

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