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October 24 - Ed Tech News, Our Weekly Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

I''m also a proposed panelist for "Education2.0 - Social Media Drives Student Success" being hosted by Jennifer Openshaw. The online study tool StudyBlue has launched a new Facebook app called " Friends with Brainefits." The Library 2.011 worldwide virtual conference starts in just over a week! Speaking at the Web 2.0

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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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. Whatever “it” is. So is “personalized learning” really a “trend”?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

While most of the headlines this week about Puerto Rico addressed the fact that a Harvard study found the death toll from Hurricane Maria hit almost 5000, Edsurge runs with a happy story about the island : “Months After a Devastating Hurricane, Puerto Rican Schools Turn to the Sun.” ” (State and Local) Education Politics.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Kaplan Will Offer Free Online PSAT Prep.” Via The Washington Post : “Meet the parents who won’t let their children study literature.” ” Among its cargo: a Facebook / Internet.org satellite that was supposed to provide Internet access Facebook to African countries.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Education Week : “Congress Budget Deal Bans New Gold-Standard Studies of Federal Vouchers.” ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “There’s a Reason the Purdue - Kaplan Deal Sounds Too Good to Be True.” Via Gizmodo : “ Facebook Will Add 3,000 More People to Watch Murders and Suicides.”

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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. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. The Intel Education Study App has now too been discontinued. Deliverology".

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Department of State has received emergency approval from the Office of Management and Budget to collect additional information regarding certain visa applicants ’ travel and employment histories, familial connections, and social media usage in accordance with a notice it posted in the Federal Register May 4.