Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

I delete all my old social media now on a regular and ongoing basis. There were other high profile incidents as well: the refusal, for example, to give visas to the all-girls robotics team from Afghanistan. ” I’d embed the tweet here in this article, but I deleted it.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2018

And yet the education/technology industry (press) kept up with its rosy repetition that social equality is surely its priority, a product feature even – that VR, for example, a technology it has for so long promised is “ on the horizon ,” is poised to help everyone, particularly teachers and students, become more empathetic.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Two school districts in two states are scaling back their use of the Facebook -built Summit Public Schools ’ learning management system. ” The city uses algorithms, for example, to place students in public schools. ” Via Buzzfeed : “ Facebook Allowed Sellers To Target Teens With Ads For Penis Keychains.”

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

When we hear a ding or little ditty alerting us to a new text, email or Facebook post, cells in our brains likely release dopamine — one of the chemical transmitters in the brain’s reward circuitry. She and her husband, Ken Goldberg , a professor in the field of robotics at the University of California, Berkeley, are very tech savvy.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2019

Liv and her mother shared their personal experiences and journey through harnessing the power of social media for empowering students to claim and share their stories. Be sure to also connect with the ISTE Librarians Network on Facebook and Twitter. This year, I created an elective, Social Justice through Social Media.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 9, 2014

Ideas range from games based learning , to the use of social media and networking, to simpler approaches such as the use of digital cameras in art or data logging in science. They see it as a means to engage learners, and as a way of making connections between school curricula and familiar territory. But that is the problem.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Facebook’s Plans to “Personalize” Education. ” A personalized news feed, for example. .” ” A personalized news feed, for example. And “personalization” is the underlying promise of the new education software Facebook is itself building. Personalized ads.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

” For example, it asked, is their preferred media activity the only thing that puts them in a good mood? There are the ones, overwhelmingly boys, who spend so much time playing video games that, in his words, they “fall behind in their social skills.” .” Note that the term addiction is in quotes here.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” Lots of news this week about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Techcrunch : “This tortoise shows kids that robot abuse is bad.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot. and Facebook Inc.

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

” I’m including this news here because 1) WeWork is making a number of education plays (acquiring bootcamps, launching a private K–12 school, for example) and 2) WeWork’s founder is Gwenyth Paltrow’s cousin (small world!), Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “ Robots in the classroom ?

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Hack Education

JUNE 1, 2018

A fabulous example of our healthy capitalist economy working its magic. ” Via Wired : “With Venues, Oculus and Facebook Push Social VR Into New Territory.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Roombas, for example. ” Via Pew : “ Teens , Social Media , & Technology 2018.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

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.” Think Facebook. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” Via The New York Times : “ Kremlin Cash Behind Billionaire’s Twitter and Facebook Investments.” ” Via The Guardian : “ Russia funded Facebook and Twitter investments through Kushner associate.” Maybe social media is broken, Cathy O’Neil suggests. “grit” a.k.a.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

” Well, you probably need to know more than what Facebook / Instagram has revealed in its new parents’ guide. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Probably my favorite “robots are the future of education” story in a good, long while. .” Perhaps their parents have money (or not)?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

” Among its cargo: a Facebook / Internet.org satellite that was supposed to provide Internet access Facebook to African countries. Here’s a different example of ownership (and the surrender of ownership) of students’ stories via the Star Tribune : “Retired Minn. Robots probably won’t take your jobs.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

There may be no better example of this in 2017 than “personalized learning.” Nor has it stopped Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg from making “personalized learning” a centerpiece of his venture philanthropy firm’s education work or from vowing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on it. million this year).

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” (This is a good example of how ed-tech advocacy-posing-as-journalism operates – you get funded by an organization and then you get to “break the news” about that organization. ” The Pew Research Center on “ Activism in the Social Media Age.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Inside Higher Ed covers Billy Willson’s viral “I’m quitting school” rant on Facebook, in which he claimed he was leaving Kansas State University with a 4.0 “Could robots be marking your homework ?” DE is distance education. tl;dr initial headlines and pronouncements might have been wrong.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

Via The Guardian : “ Student Loans Company ‘spied on vulnerable students’ social media’ ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. ” Via Techcrunch : “ Facebook launches a digital literacy library aimed at educators.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

We have seen many other popular culture examples of the cyborg, from the six-million dollar man to Robocop - and each is endowed with superhuman strength, or enhanced senses. Replacement limbs may not strictly be accepted as a merging of technology and humanity, unless they are robotic limbs. Do we really need a post-human future?

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