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New Posted Resources 01/13/2012

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Open Education Resources tags: OER ebooks opensource digitaltextbooks favorite Leading Blog: A Leadership Blog: 3 Ways to Be a Positive Leader tags: leadership favorite Analyzing Primary Sources tags: primarysources favorite Mobile Learning infokit tags: mlearning mobile favorite Technology Integration Matrix | Arizona K12 Center tags: technology integration (..)

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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I was inspired, I think, to select that topic because talk of “platforms” was incredibly popular in Silicon Valley – it had been for a while – as companies strove to become “the next Facebook.” Remember Edmodo? Think Facebook. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”)

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress this week about privacy, data, monopoly power, and regulations. And there’s more Facebook-related news in several of the sections below. ” Via The Verge : “ Facebook -backed lawmakers are pushing to gut privacy law.” Edmodo had raised some $77.5

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via ProPublica : “ Facebook (Still) Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude Users by Race.” ” (Related, this assignment from Davidson College’s Mark Sample : “Hacking Facebook’s Ad Network for Justice.”). The business of OER. ” “Personalization.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Edsurge covers OpenEd : “Beyond Free Materials: OER Advocates Push For Inclusiveness in Teaching Practices.” “ Does OER Actually Improve Learning? Via Edsurge : “Drinking, Smoking and Sugar: How Unsavory Ads Wound Up on Edmodo.” 4X faster than Facebook. Try Ethics and Philosophy.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. Edsurge ’s Tony Wan asked in 2016.

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Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Facebook , an Online Learning Platform?” ” The Calgary Board of Education has sent a notice to parents , warning them of the data breach at Edmodo. ” “​ OER Researchers Don’t Disaggregate Data on Diverse Students. Upgrades and Downgrades.