Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. And That Has Given It Some Eye-opening Data.” ” Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “ Top Hat ’s OER Announcement: Doubling down on faculty engagement.” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Via The Independent : “13-year-old girl arrested after contacting clown on social media and asking him to kill her teacher.” ” From the article: Zuckerberg revealed that he wants to ensure that education has a chance to flourish in VR. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. ” The Other US Clown Crisis.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

. “ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity ,” ProPublica reports. Schools should consider the ways in which their own social media surveillance re-inscribes these sorts of violent, nationalist policies.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

Ever wonder how stories promoted by ‘thought leaders’ on social media get selected? This from the school district that is still reeling from a major student data privacy breach. Alabama currently does not have a statewide platform for collecting longitudinal data that are gathered from year to year to plot change.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Content and Curriculum Creator, Project Explorer Creating OER-s and Interactive STEM Applications in Mathematics Higher Education , Lucie Mingla Math Educator, New York City College of Technology, CUNY Cross-cultural alignments, fertilization, differentiation: Bridging the gaps through technology , Melda N. Kristin Hundt, Teacher.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. His wife is also the founder of the OER organization CK12. Thank you, big data, for giving people this insight. ” ClassDojo is now a full social media platform for schools - this letter & video just emailed to parents.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Educause has published an article about “ The Mastery Transcript Consortium ,” a group of independent schools that are “reinventing” the college transcript. (I’m danah boyd has announced that she’ll be stepping down from running her research organization Data & Society. “Blame Big Data.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

I’ve never seen an education story receive quite as much attention from non-educators on social media. The Department of Education , under the auspices of “transparency,” promises more access to data about financial aid. It was a disaster. ” Yes, the department is now on GitHub. From the HR Department.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The IRS data retrieval tool that let financial aid applicants automatically import income information into the FAFSA won’t be restored for the current aid cycle, said James Runcie, chief operating officer of the Office of Federal Student Aid, in written testimony to Congress Wednesday.”

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Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. “ Are Universities Training Socially Minded Programmers? “ Was It Ethical for Dropbox to Share Customer Data with Scientists? ” It’s not clear what counts as “primary data” from the marketing copy.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via Vox : “Brazilian media report that police are entering university classrooms to interrogate professors.” ” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. National) Education Politics. Thanks in advance.

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JUNE 8, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via Inside Higher Ed : “The number of career colleges and the number of credentials they award have dropped by roughly 20 percent in the last four years, new data from the U.S. Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” And I am not even linking to the National Review article promoting this racist crap. Edsurge on the business of OER. Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. National) Education Politics. Look to Japan.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

. “Schools across the country are about to be held accountable for student attendance – attaching stakes to a measure that previously had much less significance and increasing the risk that schools will try to manipulate that data,” according to Chalkbeat’s Matt Barnum. I might have missed some in this back-and-forth.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

was named in an investigation by The Associated Press last year for sharing racially charged content on social media.” Via The Guardian : “ Trump bans agencies from ‘providing updates on social media or to reporters’ ” This ban has been targeted at scientists at the EPA and USDA in particular.

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