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MARCH 18, 2020

Much like how social media giants Facebook and Twitter are utilizing our digital footprints to better understand consumer behavior, teachers are also turning to data analytics to learn more about their students. With more educational institutions adopting virtual learning management systems (such as Moodle, Edmodo, etc.),

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Join me today, Thursday, February 2nd, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com panel discussion on "Personal Learning Profiles," also referred to in variously as "personal success plans," "learner profiles," or "personalized learning paths." Barbara is what you call a “Digital Pioneer.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

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.” Think Facebook. Arguably, one of the best candidates is the learning management system.

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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. Schools should consider the ways in which their own social media surveillance re-inscribes these sorts of violent, nationalist policies.

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

“ Is Homework Compatible With Personalized Learning? “ No State Will Measure Social-Emotional Learning Under ESSA. ” Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg will offer a scholarship “to ‘cut through’ unequal access to opportunity.” Technology, Education, and the Media.”

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MAY 5, 2017

Not ed-tech per se (unless you recognize that “personalized learning” is greyballing), but according to The New York Times , “ Uber Faces Federal Inquiry Over Use of Greyball Tool to Evade Authorities.” Via Gizmodo : “ Facebook Will Add 3,000 More People to Watch Murders and Suicides.”

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

University of Nebraska political science professor Ari Kohen “liked” a photo on Facebook depicting a defaced campaign sign for Congressman Jeff Fortenberry. “The Moodle / Blackboard Breakup: The Long and the Short of It” by e-Literate’s Michael Feldstein. ” The Lincoln Journal Star has the story.

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