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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

“Fake news,” “robots coming for our jobs,” “the new economy,” “surveillance capitalism,” “personalization,” “the cult of innovation,” and so on – these are all narratives intertwined in the power of major technology companies, platforms, data, and algorithms.

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The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed

The Hechinger Report

The school used the money for a bulk order of Google Chromebooks, allowing every classroom to have a laptop for each student. Related: Laptops, Chromebooks or tablets? Morial is one of three schools that received a one-time $300,000 grant from the nonprofit New Schools for New Orleans in March 2015.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot,” The Wall Street Journal gushed in 2016 , documenting an experiment undertaken at Georgia Tech in which a chatbot called “Jill Watson” answered questions in a course’s online forum. Robot essay graders — they grade just the same as human ones. Chatbot Instructors.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Chromebooks. ” Inside Higher Ed on Knewton ’s “pivot.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “ Robots will replace teachers by 2027 ,” Futurism predicts. “ When the Robots Come for Our Jobs, They’ll Spare the Teachers ,” Edsurge tries to reassure its readers.

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