Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Pearson PARCC "Spies" on Students. Um, they do.)

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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

“Mind-reading robo tutor in the sky” company Knewton has a new CEO , Brian Kibby , formerly with Pearson. Via The New York Times : “To Close Digital Divide, Microsoft to Harness Unused Television Channels.” BYJU’s has acquired tutoring company Edurite from Pearson.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

” Contrasting community college takes: a Pearson op-ed in Edsurge versus pretty much anything “ Dean Dad ” writes. Microsoft has released an early access version of its Minecraft : Education Edition. The New York Times on “The Challenges of Closing the Digital Divide.” Oh VR promises.

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

” (That giant: Pearson , of course.). Also off campus, not on-: “ Unemployed Detroit Residents Are Trapped by a Digital Divide.” Via The US News & World Report : “The View From a Testing Giant.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs for credit ! ” Go Ducks.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Microsoft and Apple are two. And Silicon Valley tech investors, as well as large education corporations like Pearson, are behind this. Perhaps finance has exacerbated the problem by insisting on the generic industrial term “technology” as a synonym for computing. In March, the FCC approved a $9.25

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