Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” IHE blogger Joshua Kim offers “25 Million Reasons Why LinkedIn / Microsoft Will Buy Coursera.” “What Happened to Facebook ’s Grand Plan to Wire the World?” National) Education Politics. million total.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2017

“ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity ,” ProPublica reports. Via The MIT Technology Review : “Finally, a Useful Application for VR: Training Employees.” The business of OER. No it doesn’t.

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Perhaps the disappearance (and reported murder) of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi doesn’t seem like an education technology story. Via Techcrunch : “ Upskill launches support for Microsoft HoloLens.”

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JUNE 23, 2017

“technologizing” the government. ” Via the BBC : “ Accenture and Microsoft plan digital IDs for millions of refugees.” Here’s a sponsored article , paid for by the Gates Foundation and published by Edsurge promoting the school and its technology.). ” What could possibly go wrong?

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MAY 5, 2017

“ Y Combinator MOOC for Tech Startups Attracts Thousands of Views,” says Campus Technology. Via Gizmodo : “ Facebook Will Add 3,000 More People to Watch Murders and Suicides.” ” Nope, robots will not be doing this job of content moderation , as Facebook recently boasted at its developer conference.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)

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JUNE 16, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Facebook , an Online Learning Platform?” “ Microsoft is really scared of Chromebooks in businesses and schools,” according to The Verge. ” Via Edsurge : “Education Technology Tools for Adult Learners Get Mixed Results From SRI Study.” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via E-Literate : “ Hawai’i Senate Bill: Would mandate OER material for all U Hawai’i system courses.” ” And later in the week, an update : “Hawai’i Senate OER Bill Update: Amended language saves the day.”

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

” Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Reward Students for Referrals and Facebook Endorsements.” ” Via the Microsoft press release : “Introducing Education Resources, a source of Open Educational Resources within Office 365.” ” Similar news about Microsoft products.

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MAY 27, 2016

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.” This week: “ OpenStax Partners with panOpen to Expand OER Access.” Via Bloomberg Technology : “How Thync , Startup Behind Brain-Zapping Gadget, Almost Died.”

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JUNE 8, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Inside Higher Ed on Facebook ’s plans to partner with community colleges to teach digital literacy. “Some Thoughts on OER ” by Mindwires Consulting’s Michael Feldstein. Microsoft has acquired GitHub.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

.” For those keeping track of how great social media is for the future of education and knowledge and civics and such: “Last Year, Social Media Was Used to Influence Elections in at Least 18 Countries ,” says the MIT Technology Review. “If We Talked About the Internet Like We Talk About OER” by Stephen Downes.

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MARCH 9, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. “ Coursera More than Doubles Number of Degrees on Its Platform,” says Campus Technology. ” Perhaps protest Stanford’s Persuasive Technology Lab ? Edsurge on the business of OER. National) Education Politics.

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JULY 21, 2017

Via Education Week : “ Minecraft Party to Raise Money for Technology in Philly Schools.” ” Campus Technology rewrites the press release that Examity will be used for identify verification and proctoring in edX classes. “ Credly Receives Open Badges Certification ,” Campus Technology reports.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

Via the MIT Technology Review : “For $14,000, a Weeklong Firehose of Silicon Valley Kool-Aid.” ” Via The Seattle Times : “Shooter sent Facebook message to Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos before gunfire at UW protest, police say.” ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. ” Yup.

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MAY 26, 2017

“ The Office of Educational Technology Under DeVos” by Doug Levin. Related: “‘ Harvard Crimson ’ Site Is Hacked to Take Jabs at Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg ,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. .” “Tracking Google and Microsoft Adoption in Higher Ed” by Jim Siegl.

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A divided federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s ruling that a Minnesota community college was justified when it kicked a student out of a nursing program because of Facebook comments administrators deemed to be unprofessional and threatening to fellow students.”

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