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Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Some Thoughts from ASU+GSV

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Yes, I went to ASU+GSV – my first time at the event in the event’s nine year history. ” Investors go to the event for private meetings. ” There was all the usual talk of job-stealing robots and the “ jobs that don’t exist yet.” It was everything y’all said it would be.

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(This Is Not a Morphology of) The Monsters of Education Technology

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And thank you too for the theme of this event – your willingness to talk about failures and struggles with education technology rather than, what’s almost always the case, this strange dogma the field demands – that we only offer praise and thanks for the glory of education technology. ” Robots are coming for our jobs.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. Wonder Workshop (robotics) – $41 million.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” The Outline highlights the “Summer’s hottest dystopian crossover event is MoviePass and student loan debt ”: Refinance your debt with Laurel Road, and get a free annual MoviePass membership! ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” That’s Kaplan University and the Art Institutes. More on the Kaplan news via The Chronicle of Higher Education. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “Peter Thiel May Finally Get His Flying Cars, Thanks to a New Udacity Nanodegree in 2018.” support, EFF resigns.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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More on last week’s Purdue and Kaplan deal: “ Purdue ’s deal for Kaplan U trades a long-term business relationship for low up-front costs while raising worries – especially among faculty groups – about blurred lines between public and private higher ed,” Inside Higher Ed reports. .”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via KIRO7 : “Charges filed after University of Washington shooting outside Milo Yiannopoulos event.” Purdue University is buying Kaplan University for a dollar. Me, I wrote about how far Kaplan Inc ’s reach is in education politics and products. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Or something else? Move along.