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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

Do you know that feeling when you are told your questions about student privacy are unfounded by a representative of a company that earns 86% of its total revenue from advertising? The thread on this tweet has the details. “I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link].

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Learning.com Launches Cyberbullying Prevention Campaign for National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month

techlearning

Learning.comoffers a complete online safety curriculum that provides lesson plans and activities, reporting on district E-rate compliance, and seamless integration with Google Classroom and other widely used learning platforms. Founded in 1999, Learning.com currently partners with one in six U.S.

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Truth, truthiness, triangulation and the librarian way: A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” world

NeverEndingSearch

Consider this results of this report in the context of with the decline of the newspaper industry also documented by recent Pew Research Center data. Remember Time Magazine’s darkening of the OJ mugshot? Check out the post That Chain E-Mail Your Friend Sent to You is (Likely) Bogus. Some are born digital. Remember Sandy?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

This is really similar to the work I do mapping the relationships – financial and otherwise – among various players in the ed-tech industry. And this prompted me to update my list of education / technology companies that are ALEC members.). The New York Times Magazine interviews the new Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ For-Profit Companies With the Highest Enrollments at Their Colleges, Fall 2016.” World Magazine on how Liberty University handles its student newspaper: “Papered over.” despite having Arizona ’s third-highest dropout rate.” Sounds legit.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” asks New York Magazine. ” Via Politico : “Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has increased her financial stake in a ‘neurofeedback’ company that says its technology treats attention deficit disorder and the symptoms of autism. .” ” asks Chester E. (National) Education Politics.

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The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

Bust or not, companies across the tech sector, particularly those with high “burn rates” , faced tough choices in 2016: “cut costs drastically to become self-sustaining, or seek additional capital on ever-more-onerous terms,” as The WSJ put it – that is, if they were able to raise additional capital at all. .”