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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via EdScoop : “‘Deliberate cyberattack ’ delays online assessments in five states.” Via TNW : “ Facebook trials ‘ High School Networks ’ for Messenger – what could go wrong there?” Via The New York Times : “Is Facebook’s Campbell Brown a Force to Be Reckoned With?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. It was an elaborate scam, dating back to 2012, but one that gave out many online signals that the school was “real.” Personalized Learning" Software (and Facebook and Summit Public Schools).

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Edsurge : “ Republican Party Platform Addresses Education, Nods to Edtech.” ” Venture capitalist, supervillain, and Facebook investor and board member Peter Thiel spoke Thursday night. (More on private student loans in the “upgrades and downgrades” section below.). ” (Congrats, ed-tech.)