Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

Via the Coursera blog : “What’s Next in Employee Learning: Virtual Reality.” ” The Chronicle of Higher Education on Elsevier “becoming a data company.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative ’s CTO, Brian Pinkerton , is leaving the company. But With a Better Future?

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

Via the edX blog : “Higher Education Needs a Re-think to Train Tomorrow’s Workforce.” “‘Eton for all’: will robot teachers mean everyone gets an elite education? ” Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg will offer a scholarship “to ‘cut through’ unequal access to opportunity.”

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JUNE 23, 2017

Via Nature : “One of the world’s largest science publishers, Elsevier , won a default legal judgement on 21 June against websites that provide illicit access to tens of millions of research papers and books. “Mark Zuckerberg just unveiled Facebook ’s new mission statement,” says The Verge.

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AUGUST 10, 2018

” Via Techcrunch : “ Facebook launches Mentorships , matching people within Groups to help them guide each other.” Via Buzzfeed : “Internal Facebook Note: Here Is A ‘Psychological Trick’ To Target Teens.” Google blogs ; tech publications help market the news. Upgrades and Downgrades.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2018

She wrote a blog post on Medium. The stories out of Facebook just keep getting worse. I mean, I’m just glad that no one from Facebook is involved in education, ed-tech, ed reform, or education journalism. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. RELX is the former weapons dealer known as Reed Elsevier.

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MAY 5, 2017

” Via Infodocket : “ Louisiana State University is Suing Elsevier For Breach of Contract.” ” “Mitch Daniels Wants to Sell the Soul of Public Education: Purdue Faculty Must Stop Him,” the Academe blog argues. Via Gizmodo : “ Facebook Will Add 3,000 More People to Watch Murders and Suicides.”

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Via The Daily Beast : “ Palmer Luckey : The Facebook Near-Billionaire Secretly Funding Trump’s Meme Machine.” Well, one thing’s for certain: between this and Peter Thiel on its board, Facebook is well-positioned for a Trump presidency. Heckuva job. tl;dr: emailing them, holding webinars, using social media.

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