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

Hack Education

Remember, if you will, the insistence from the University of Virginia Board of Visitors that school was missing the “coming MOOC tsunami” based on columns they’d read in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. ” I heard three different people repeat that old Arthur C.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

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

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School Work and Surveillance

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More personalized means more surveilled — we know this from Facebook and Amazon, don't we. They require a student show photo identification to their laptop camera before the test begins. It then matches that data that to the student's "biometric faceprint" captured by the laptop camera.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

It’s not really “free Internet,” of course – it’s Facebook as Internet. million laptops to all public primary schools. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? Raise $146.1

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How—and Why—We Can Improve the Future of Mobile Learning

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When Massive Open Online Courses (or MOOCs) were first introduced, people quickly realized these platforms could help students learn more effectively at their own pace on their own schedule. Students may tend to think that composing an essay or conducting research is easier done on a laptop, for instance.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Pi-top , the maker of a Raspberry Pi-compatible laptop, has raised $16 million from Hambro Perks and Committed Capital. ” Via The New York Times : “ Facebook ’s Push for Facial Recognition Prompts Privacy Alarms.” The company has raised $20.4

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. For the past ten years, every ten months or so, someone would pen an op-ed claiming it was time to ban laptops in the classroom. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. And on and on and on.

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