Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools. Textbook Publishers vs. Boundless.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Conference of Mayors Resolves to Support Digital Badging ,” says Edsurge. There’s some more research on badges and alternative credentials in the research section below. Lots of press releases were issued this week to coincide with the ISTE conference in Denver – Amazon’s new OER platform, for example.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Demanding that schools teach “the right skills” is also one of many examples of an ongoing “innovation” fixation , of how industry is pressing the education system to bend to its needs. There are other markets to pursue, after all – markets in Mexico , Gaza , Uganda, Kenya, and Nigeria , for example.

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