Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition). Technology used to target UAE’s cheating students | The National → "We were saying technology helps students cheat, now, we’d say it’s helping them understand unethical behaviour better than ever." Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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APRIL 27, 2018

Via Chalkbeat : “Robotics is bringing Betsy DeVos to Detroit for the first time as education secretary.” ” (“…She’s unlikely to encounter local students when she’s there.”). Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. Edtech Companies?” National) Education Politics.

Education 44

Education Facebook Company MOOC 44

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids have iPads. As the decade went on, the arguments for surveilling students’ social media have changed several times. The iPad would solve that,” he said. And “free” doesn’t last. Chatbot Instructors.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

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JUNE 8, 2018

Via KPCC : “ LAUSD may try again to give an iPad or computer to every student.” ” The Orlando Sentinel on what students are learning in some of Florida’s voucher schools : “Private schools’ curriculum downplays slavery, says humans and dinosaurs lived together.”

Khan Academy 45

Khan Academy Education Facebook E-rate 45