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The future of education in 2016, from the sharing economy to BYOD: my Future Trends Forum recording and materials

Bryan Alexander

Technology topics included social media, video, 3d printing, VR, internet of things, automation, and privacy. In discussion we touched on cognitive computing, “quick” (live or easily published) video (Kat’s term), video growing on mobile devices. Participants spoke to early childhood computing.

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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

More personalized means more surveilled — we know this from Facebook and Amazon, don't we. This online monitoring includes tracking students' social media accounts, "listening" for menacing keywords and phrases. And this is key: the fear that students are going to cheat is constitutive of much of education technology.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare. There are, after all, only so many times you can put “mobile” on your list of “what’s on the horizon” before folks begin to suspect your insights might not be that… insightful. Whatever “it” is.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

Claims on Social Media : Students consider the sources of a tweet and the information contained in it in order to describe what makes it both a useful and not useful source of information. Social Media Video : Students watch an online video and identify its strengths and weaknesses.

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

Hack Education

Beyond the MOOC. Social Media, Campus Activism, and Free Speech. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs. Social Media: Adoption and Crackdown. Mobile Learning. Social Learning, Social Networks. The Compulsion for Data.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Independent : “13-year-old girl arrested after contacting clown on social media and asking him to kill her teacher.” It’s not really “free Internet,” of course – it’s Facebook as Internet. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Raise $146.1

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs are back in the headlines again. Via Edsurge : “The Second Wave of MOOC Hype Is Here, and It’s Online Degrees.” “What Happened to Facebook ’s Grand Plan to Wire the World?” ” asks Wired. ” Oh.