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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

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” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. ” Less than three months later, Apple introduced the iPhone. But the data is flawed. The quotation is from 2012. Nightmarish, yes.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The University of Iceland has joined edX. Speaking of child exploitation, this via The Financial Times : “ Apple’s iPhone X assembled by illegal student labour.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

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.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot. Computer Science For All.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via The New York Times : “ Apple Investors Warn iPhones and Other Technology May Be Hurting Children.” That student data is big bucks? Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” “What’s Slack Doing With Your Data?” News at 11.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ California Should Watch Arkansas Process for Creating New Online Institution,” says Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill. danah boyd has announced that she’ll be stepping down from running her research organization Data & Society. Apple had a thing.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The GW Hatchet : “Oversight of online learning programs lacking in some schools, report finds.” ” Because I can’t tell you how many times I have needed to prove I have a college degree but I didn’t have a digital copy of my diploma on my iPhone.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” There’s more MOOC news in the “business of education” section below. Via Motherboard : “The iPhone ’s New Parental Controls Block Searches for Sex Ed , Allow Violence and Racism.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.