Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

Via Education Week : “ E-Rate , Other Universal-Service Funds to Be Transferred to U.S. ” The New York Times on “ mastery based learning ” : “A New Kind of Classroom: No Grades, No Failing, No Hurry.” ” The Chronicle of Higher Education on Elsevier “becoming a data company.”

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AUGUST 10, 2018

Via Edsurge : “Why the FCC ’s E-rate Makes Funding High-Speed Internet a Slow Crawl.” “The Saga of Ohio ’s Embattled E-School Is Coming to an End,” writes Education Week’s Ben Herold. Google has updated its pseudo-LMS, Classroom. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

” “Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019,” says Edsurge. Buzzfeed on the Parkland school shooting survivors : “‘It was like a war in the classroom. Via Mashable : “The e-waste nightmare lurking in your kid’s toy box.” It was a nightmare.’”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

I’m not sure why Inc calls ClassDojo “Slack for Classrooms” when it’s really much more “operant conditioning and surveillance for schools.” Via The Backchannel : “ Microsoft Weaponizes Minecraft in the War Over Classrooms.” ” “ 2016 E-Rate Trends.”

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APRIL 27, 2018

Via Chalkbeat : “Robotics is bringing Betsy DeVos to Detroit for the first time as education secretary.” For your “yes, Microsoft is still horrible files,” this from The Washington Post : “ E-waste recycler Eric Lundgren loses appeal on computer restore disks, must serve 15-month prison term.”

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