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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” (Edsurge, for what it’s worth, shares investors with Class Central, Udacity, and Coursera (although there’s no disclosure on that article to that end) – funny how the narratives about the “revolutionary” potential of MOOCs get spread, eh?). ” The company in question is called Sqore.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” From the Bloomberg Editorial Board : “A Raw Deal From Betsy DeVos ” – “ Rolling back regulations on the for-profit college industry will cause the public pain.” And there’s more on regulating the industry (or ya know, not) in the national politics section above.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

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Industry, not the child’s imagination as Seymour would have it, largely dictates the shape and direction of the CS trend. If there is a gap, it’s perhaps the one that persists in STEM education and in the technology industry more broadly – that is, these remain overwhelmingly white and overwhelmingly male.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” Via The New York Times : “ Kremlin Cash Behind Billionaire’s Twitter and Facebook Investments.” ” Via The Guardian : “ Russia funded Facebook and Twitter investments through Kushner associate.” Maybe social media is broken, Cathy O’Neil suggests. ” No.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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now ranks near the bottom among 35 industrialized nations in math,” The Hechinger Report frets. ” “ Coursera Monthly Subscriptions Channel Lynda and Pluralsight ,” says EduKwest’s Kirsten Winkler. ” “So-So Social Media Privacy? “The 2015 PISA Results: What Do They Mean?”