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Hack Education Weekly News

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” From the press release : “ Concentric Sky Announces BadgeRank – a New Search Engine for Digital Badges.” Edsurge on replacing the Horizon Report : “Group Looks for New Ways to Peer Over the Edtech Horizon.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Facebook Adds Community Colleges to Program.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. In 2018, Mozilla said it would retire Backpack, its platform for sharing and displaying badges, and would help users move their badges to Badgr, software developed by the tech company Concentric Sky.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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. “ President Trump Earmarks $200 Million in Federal Grants for STEM , Computer Science Programs ,” says Edsurge , later swooning that “ Google , Facebook , Amazon Among Tech Titans Committing $300 Million to K–12 Computer Science.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Accreditation and Certification.