Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

.” Via the AP : “A judge ruled Friday that school districts [in Florida ] can’t hold 3rd graders back just because they score badly on a mandated standardized reading test, saying that classroom grades and teacher evaluations have to be considered.” Robots probably won’t take your jobs. million total.

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AUGUST 11, 2017

” 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.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Holy s**t. Tech Researcher Costumed as Car Seat.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Salesforce , the world’s largest customer relationship management platform, has announced a new classroom-ready training scheme called Trailhead for Students.” “‘Eton for all’: will robot teachers mean everyone gets an elite education? Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

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 has updated its pseudo-LMS, Classroom. Elsevier has acquired Aries Systems.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Buzzfeed on the Parkland school shooting survivors : “‘It was like a war in the classroom. 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.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

.” Via Infodocket : “ Louisiana State University is Suing Elsevier For Breach of Contract.” Via Gizmodo : “ Facebook Will Add 3,000 More People to Watch Murders and Suicides.” ” Nope, robots will not be doing this job of content moderation , as Facebook recently boasted at its developer conference.

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Hack Education

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. More hype via Edsurge. ” But don’t worry. ” But hey.

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