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Hack Education Weekly News

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Facebook Funded Most of the Experts Who Vetted Messenger Kids ,” Wired’s Nitasha Tiku reports. From the press release : “ ISTE Launches New Professional Learning Partnership with Code.org ; Announces Plans to Update Standards for Computer Science Educators.” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

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Code.org is backed by a long list of technology companies – from AT&T to Amazon to Facebook to Google to Verizon. (I’ll Sony’s in the business. I’ll look in more detail at how robots are coming for your children in the next article in this series.). Malta thinks it’s necessary, I guess.