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7 Ways to Close the Access Gap

Tom Murray

Leverage Apps Such As Facebook. Last year, I wrote the post, “ Can Companies Like Facebook Help Close the Access Gap? ” after Facebook introduced a new tool inside the app to find wifi nearby. Facebook App –> Settings –> See More –> Find Wifi].

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Need To Know: AI and Machine Learning

techlearning

IT’S ALREADY HERE Examples of weak AI have widely been adopted by many different business and are in use today—you just might not realize it. What about Facebook and its ability to not only recognize there are people in the photo you’ve posted, but can sometimes even identify them too? The market has reacted at pace.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

It’s not really “free Internet,” of course – it’s Facebook as Internet. From the FCC : “Fact Sheet on Broadband Consumer Privacy Proposal.” It’s always fascinating to look at ed-tech companies’ job postings – this one is from Khan Academy. ” Um, like Juliet?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The New York Times : “ Broadband Law Could Force Rural Residents Off Information Superhighway.” Chopra worked at the CFPB and, while there, “sued two for-profit-college companies – ITT Educational Services Inc. ” asks Fast Company. (I’m ” Presidential Campaign Politics.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Two school districts in two states are scaling back their use of the Facebook -built Summit Public Schools ’ learning management system. ” São Paulo has approved a bill that would allow companies to manufacture school uniforms and sell branding and sponsorship opportunities on the clothing. ” Education in the Courts.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Education Week : “ Trump Signs Orders on Rural Broadband Access.” awards debt collection contract to company with ties to DeVos.” ” Via Buzzfeed : “Here’s How A Student Loan Debt Relief Company Preyed On Its Customers.” ” The company: the Student Loan Assistance Center.

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The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

I think it’s safe to say, for example, that venture capital investment has fallen off rather precipitously this year. You might read the signals of the health of ed-tech startups in the departure of their founders – both from leadership positions and from their companies altogether. Daphne Koller left Coursera this year.