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Hack Education Weekly News

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Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Edmentum has raised $25 million in debt financing from New Mountain Finance Corporation and Tennenbaum Capital Partners. Via Education Week : “Thousands of Android Mobile Apps Improperly Track Children, Study Says.” Embibe has raised $180 million from Reliance.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. But the “spying” has continued. Chatbot Instructors.

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