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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 19, 2017 Cyber attacks a serious, and under-reported, threat to Boulder Valley companies | Boulder Daily Camera → Specific to the Boulder, CO-area, but useful overview of cybersecurity trends. Tagged on: March 17, 2017 Problems with Personalized Learning | dy/dan → Dan Meyer says, "This isn’t good instruction.

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Via Education Week : “ E-Rate , Other Universal-Service Funds to Be Transferred to U.S. Larry Cuban on personalized learning : part 1 and part 2. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via The New York Times : “A Few Telling Freshman Trends.” Post, Sources Say.” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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” At least the e-cigarette company (which targets teens) offers a social-emotional learning curriculum, right? ” Via the AP : “ District of Columbia Mayor Muriel E. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “ Robots in the classroom ? ” (State and Local) Education Politics. .”

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Private School With Low Vaccination Rates.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via The New York Times : “Meet Zora, the Robot Caregiver.” ” Via e-Literate : “Fall 2017 Top 30 Largest Online Enrollments In US – With LMS Usage and Trends Since 2012.”

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Via Education Week : “ FCC Chair Moves to Block E-Rate Funds for Companies Deemed ‘Security Risk’ ” (State and Local) Education Politics. “A Response to Larry Berger’s ‘Confession’ on Personalized Learning ” by New Classrooms’ Joel Rose.

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” The story contains some machinations at the Department of Education in which the White Hous e tried to fire a Jeb Bush-supporting staffer. I’m also curious how this news – again, I’m not sure two closures are really a “trend” – will affect student loan startups. ” asks Chester E.

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Via Chalkbeat : “Robotics is bringing Betsy DeVos to Detroit for the first time as education secretary.” For your “yes, Microsoft is still horrible files,” this from The Washington Post : “ E-waste recycler Eric Lundgren loses appeal on computer restore disks, must serve 15-month prison term.”