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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

I don't want to come off today as making broad sweeping statements about all of education everywhere when I'm very much talking about the education system in the US and the education technology industry in the US. The company works both ends of the plagiarism market. So grain of salt and my apologies and all that.

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Technology and Casey Green on campus: Future Trends Forum #3, notes and full recording

Bryan Alexander

We then dove into the learning management system ( LMS in the US; VLE in Europe ). Casey sees it not as a tool for learning, nor much of an administrative tool, but a content dissemination platform, “like a supermarket scanner” (cites Cat Finnegan’s research in the Virginia community college system).

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We need to rethink university IT Services

Mark Smithers

Increasingly academics are circumventing official systems to buy their own machines, or host their own services, often in their own time and at their own expense. There is little room for experimenting with tools beyond the VLE. All of these people require different levels of access to different systems. Simplification.

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The Top Ed-Tech Trends (Aren't 'Tech')

Hack Education

” Despite thinking of themselves as liberal-learning, today’s tech companies re-inscribe much of this. What sorts of companies and what sorts of products do venture capitalists like, for example? The California that ignores race and labor and water and war. “Disrupt.” ” “Unbundle.”

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