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.” 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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” 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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.” 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? .”

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Google has updated its pseudo-LMS, Classroom. More Google PR, this time from The Verge : “ Google is adding ARCore support to the Chromebook Tab 10 with Classroom updates.” Arguably, a much more interesting look at gaming and education is this, from Phil McAndrew , on D&D : “Critical Hits in the Classroom.”

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Buzzfeed on the Parkland school shooting survivors : “‘It was like a war in the classroom. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. RELX is the former weapons dealer known as Reed Elsevier. Larry Cuban on “ Technological Monitoring of Student Work in a Classroom.” It was a nightmare.’”

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.” Via Infodocket : “ Louisiana State University is Suing Elsevier For Breach of Contract.” ” Nope, robots will not be doing this job of content moderation , as Facebook recently boasted at its developer conference. Via The New York Times : “Microsoft Looks to Regain Lost Ground in the Classroom.”

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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.” ” But hey.