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(The Very Last) Hack Education Weekly News

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Each week for the past eight or so years, I have gathered a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Has technology solutionism ever been more heartbreaking?! It’s like the MOOC crap all over again. ” Oh.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Paul LePage has called for a review of his state’s groundbreaking 1-to–1 student computing initiative, highlighting the growing pains nagging an educational-technology movement now well into its second decade.” ” “Two assessment companies – Educational Testing Service and Data Recognition Corp.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via The Intercept : “These Are the Technology Firms Lining Up to Build Trump’s ‘Extreme Vetting’ Program.” ” Via Gamasutra : “Parents take Subway Surfers devs to court over alleged misuse of kids’ data.” .” Immigration and Education. ” Education in the Courts.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Politico : Western Governors University , “the nation’s leading provider of competency-based educatio n – which the Education Department’s independent watchdog last month said violated federal student aid rules – is expanding into North Carolina.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Idaho Ed News quotes local high school students who protested the visit and their school’s reliance on technology. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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technologizing” the government. Via Nature : “One of the world’s largest science publishers, Elsevier , won a default legal judgement on 21 June against websites that provide illicit access to tens of millions of research papers and books. Google ’s chairman Eric Schmidt praises Trump.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Trump’s education platform promises to “make post-secondary options more affordable and accessible through technology enriched delivery models.” ” “Make MOOCs great again.” Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. Attorney General Cautions Ed-Tech Companies on Data Privacy.” “U.S.