Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

It’s not really “free Internet,” of course – it’s Facebook as Internet. Via Venture Beat : “ Facebook and Oculus promise millions in funding for diverse apps, education, and more for VR.” ” “The Weak Evidence Behind Brain-Training Games ” by The Atlantic’s Ed Yong.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2017

” The Business of Job Training. Via The MIT Technology Review : “Finally, a Useful Application for VR: Training Employees.” trains students become venture capitalists.” Via the Google blog : “Investing £1 million in training for computing teachers in the U.K. The business of OER.

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DECEMBER 22, 2017

Two school districts in two states are scaling back their use of the Facebook -built Summit Public Schools ’ learning management system. ProPublica with more news about Facebook and discrimination : “Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads.” ” Contests and Awards. (I

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MAY 25, 2018

The Business of Job Training. ” Via Chalkbeat : “A growing Jeffco program trains future early childhood workers while they’re still in high school.” “What Happened to Facebook ’s Grand Plan to Wire the World?” ” That’s Kris Cheung who plans to join KIPP. ” asks Wired.

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

The Business of Job Training. ” Of course, the technology is biased because the data that Amazon used to “train” the algorithm was biased, which likely means that Amazon’s recruiting practices were biased in the first place. .” “ Does OER Actually Improve Learning? 4X faster than Facebook.

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JUNE 23, 2017

” Via The New York Times : “ Trump Move on Job Training Brings ‘ Skills Gap ’ Debate to the Fore.” ” More on the business of job training in its own section below. ” The Business of Job Training. Via Buzzfeed : “ Violence On Facebook Live Is Worse Than You Thought.”

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MAY 5, 2017

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. The Business of Job Training. It’ll be low-wage workers in places like the Philippines.

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JULY 27, 2018

There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. The Business of Job Training. Why is this in the job training section of the Hack Education Weekly News, you ask? ” asks The Atlantic. “ Are Universities Training Socially Minded Programmers? ” asks The Atlantic.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2017

” Via The New York Times : “ Navy Orders New Training After Deadly Ship Collisions.” ” Apparently watching CD-ROMs isn’t sufficient training for driving Navy destroyers. Meanwhile, as The New York Times reports : “ Facebook , Under Fire in Russia Inquiry, Posts 79% Rise in Profit.”

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. Brain Training. You're sexist.

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JUNE 16, 2017

The Business of Job Training. Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Facebook , an Online Learning Platform?” ” “​ OER Researchers Don’t Disaggregate Data on Diverse Students. Via Inside Higher Ed : “The College of New Rochelle on Monday announced 32 layoffs, including 10 tenured faculty members.”

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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 Business of Job Training (and the Business of Jobs Giving Educational Benefits for Employees). Via Edsurge : “Campus Support for OER is Growing, Survey Finds.”

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Via Chalkbeat : “Trump’s proposed education budget: more for school choice, less for teacher training.” Via E-Literate : “ Hawai’i Senate Bill: Would mandate OER material for all U Hawai’i system courses.” The Business of Job Training. That’s what I do here. ” Hooray.

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

” Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Reward Students for Referrals and Facebook Endorsements.” The Business of Job Training. Via The New York Times : “ Google Unveils Job Training Initiative With $1 Billion Pledge.” million ‘contract inducement’ to come back,” Bloomberg reports.

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JUNE 8, 2018

The Business of Job Training. Inside Higher Ed on Facebook ’s plans to partner with community colleges to teach digital literacy. Here’s how the Des Moines Register wrote about Des Moines Area Community College ’s involvement: “Facebook chooses Iowa college for rare digital marketing education partnership.”

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OCTOBER 26, 2018

This Edsurge article – “ OER is Growing at Religious Colleges , But Raises Unique Challenges” – strikes me as a little weird, considering the long relationship between open education (the conference, at the very least) and former BYU professor David Wiley. What’s next?” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

The Business of Job Training. You just need the right training apparently. Fails at Worker Training ” – according to The Atlantic at least. Via Techcrunch : “ Facebook , Google and others join The Trust Project , an effort to increase transparency around online news.” ” “Why the U.S.

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MARCH 9, 2018

” The Business of Job Training. Edsurge on the business of OER. Via The Guardian : “ Facebook asks users: should we allow men to ask children for sexual images ?” Watch how the narratives about “the future of education” are crafted. ” Conferences and Events.

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JULY 21, 2017

” Via Education Week : “For Principals, Student Sexting a Speeding ‘Freight Train,’ Full of Peril.” Via Patheos : “ BYU-Idaho Professor Fired After Defending LGBT Rights in Private Facebook Post.” ” The Business of Job Training. Via The Washington Post : “Some D.C.

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MAY 26, 2017

Related: “‘ Harvard Crimson ’ Site Is Hacked to Take Jabs at Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg ,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. .” ” The Business of Job Training. What’s going to happen to all those clown colleges and clown training programs? How Google is ruining the Web.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

See also: “ George Mason U Signs with Outsourcer to Train Students in Coding” via Campus Technology. I count Zenefits as “ed-tech” of sorts because, among its offerings: training and testing for health insurance workers – with a bonus: cheating on licensing exams.). The Business of Job Training.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

” Via The Seattle Times : “Shooter sent Facebook message to Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos before gunfire at UW protest, police say.” ” Via The New York Times : “ Facebook ’s Virtual Reality Business Gets a New Leader.” The Business of Job Training and Job Placement. ” Yup.

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