Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

” Among its cargo: a Facebook / Internet.org satellite that was supposed to provide Internet access Facebook to African countries. Via the EFF : “Stupid Patent of the Month: Elsevier Patents Online Peer Review.” Shawn Graham responds to this patent on peer review by patenting Elsevier.

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AUGUST 11, 2017

The Wall Street Journal predicts “The End of Typing: The Next Billion Mobile Users Will Rely on Video and Voice.” ” The Chronicle of Higher Education on Elsevier “becoming a data company.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

” Via the AP : “The superintendent of a suburban Cleveland school district who was caught on video at a high school football game pulling down the pants of the school board vice president has been suspended.” “‘Eton for all’: will robot teachers mean everyone gets an elite education?

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NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The stories out of Facebook just keep getting worse. I mean, I’m just glad that no one from Facebook is involved in education, ed-tech, ed reform, or education journalism. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. RELX is the former weapons dealer known as Reed Elsevier. What are these jobs?

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MAY 5, 2017

” Via Infodocket : “ Louisiana State University is Suing Elsevier For Breach of Contract.” It’s just a bunch of video-taped lectures for the (offline) “ Startup School ” event that the startup incubator program runs at Stanford (which is really just a series of short talks by entrepreneurs and founders).

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Via The Daily Beast : “ Palmer Luckey : The Facebook Near-Billionaire Secretly Funding Trump’s Meme Machine.” Well, one thing’s for certain: between this and Peter Thiel on its board, Facebook is well-positioned for a Trump presidency. More accreditation news in the for-profit higher ed section above.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

On video games , for example – yes, that old canard. blog : “ Elsevier Collaborates with Hypothesis to Integrate Open Annotation.” I’ve got all the “learn-to-code” news in the job training section, because let’s be honest… Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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