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Hack Education Weekly News

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For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Lots of news this week about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. Minnesota Confronts a National Quandary.”

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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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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The Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology

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Beyond the MOOC. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs. Learning to Code. Education Data and Learning Analytics. The Digital Library. The Collapse of For-Profit Higher Education (Or Not). The Compulsion for Data. Indie Ed-Tech.

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Top Ed-Tech Trends: A Review

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Here we are with a President-Elect – a reality TV star – who has been supported by white nationalists, the KKK, Wikileaks, trolls, and Peter Thiel, who election was facilitated through a massive misinformation campaign spread virally through Facebook. Beyond the MOOC. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs. Learning to Code.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). Siegler: “ The End of the Library.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Meanwhile, as The New York Times reports : “ Facebook , Under Fire in Russia Inquiry, Posts 79% Rise in Profit.” Tell me more about how the blockchain is going to “verify learning.” Via Getting Smart : “ Digital Promise and Facebook Developing New Micro-Credentials Program.” ” LOL.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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In addition to funding this lawsuit, Thiel sits on the board of Facebook , which itself is playing a huge role in the “ future of news.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs for credit ! For more on MOOCs for credit, see the “MOOCs” section above. The takes).