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For Some Students, #DeleteFacebook Is Not Really an Option

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She also liked posting links to articles, and enjoyed seeing students do so too. Her peers communicated more via apps like Twitter, Instagram and the Remind. Opting out of social media, he says, isn’t ever really an option for people. Jackson now teaches at Zurich International in Switzerland.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. Indeed, a few weeks after the funding news, Feldstein wrote about “Why Moodle Supporters Should be Concerned,” questioning the sustainability of the project. .”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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. “ 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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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The Huffington Post filed Twitter’s response to Ivanka Trump ’s announcement under “comedy.” ” (The narrative structure of these sorts of articles is always the same: crisis occurs; tech will save the day. The LMS Moodle has raised $6 million in its first ever round of venture funding. 2 Post at Ed.

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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 The Guardian : “ Student Loans Company ‘spied on vulnerable students’ social media’ ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. Also from Feldstein : “ Moodle and Blackboard Cut Ties.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“ From the article that ”innovative teaching practice" appears to be project-based learning. ” The article is accompanied by a photo of a classroom full of Asian students – as if Asian is not American. Maybe social media is broken, Cathy O’Neil suggests. Education in the Courts.