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Hack Education Weekly News

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Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. I missed this news back in February: Chegg acquired RefMe. Khan Academy, for example, had $27.9 Phil Hill on an “LMS Revival: D2L picking up new customers and showing they can listen.” ” “ The Giant Inflatable Trump Chicken of Ed Tech ” by Michael Feldstein.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Kno was headed by Osman Rashid, the co-founder of the textbook rental company Chegg, and the tablet was aimed at the college market. Robot essay graders — they grade just the same as human ones. In September 2010, Techcrunch founder Mike Arrington announced that Kno had raised $46 million from Andreessen-Horowitz and other investors.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Khan Academy is launching a new series on US history and civics. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Futurism.com : “Here Are the States Where a Robot Is Most Likely to Steal Your Job.” The folks at Getting Smart promote CS and SEL resources on Facebook for Education. And sure, why not.