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The Facebook Scandal: What Can We Learn as Educators

The CoolCatTeacher

In a nutshell, Cambridge Analytica, was a corporation that used Facebook data and had permission to look at about a quarter million accounts, but because of the way Facebook sets itself up, whenever you give permission to Facebook, you’re also basically giving permission for Facebook to look at your friends. Vicki: Yeah. Vicki: Yeah.

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Profile of Asbury Park (NJ) Superintendent Sancha Gray

techlearning

A second prong of individualized direct instruction, informed by the data provided from those “games,” was rounded out by a third rotation—reading books of their choosing at their level. They use the Blackboard platform to communicate with professors and engage fellow students in their courses.

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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2018)

Hack Education

Robots won’t replace you , the press repeatedly said. Unsaid: robots will just de-professionalize , outsource , or privatize the work. Or, as the AI makers like to say, robots will make us all work harder (and no doubt, with no unions, cheaper). A teacher in front of a blackboard. Don’t worry, teachers.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. Platforms are “an extractive apparatus for data.”

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Memory Machines: Learning, Knowing, and Technological Change

Hack Education

Image and data credits are listed at the bottom of this post. But the data is flawed. Often, the argument that there’s “too much information” involves pointing to the vast amounts of data that is created thanks to computers. This data is big data. You can find the slides here.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress this week about privacy, data, monopoly power, and regulations. ” Via Campus Technology : “ NYC Data Science Academy Launches Online Bootcamp.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via Techcrunch : “ Robot tutor Musio makes its retail debut in Japan.” Via Edsurge : “ Schoolzilla ‘File Configuration Error’ Exposes Data for More Than 1.3M Via iNews : “ University to monitor student social media to gauge well-being.”