Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Platforms provide the substructure for the “gig economy” and the “sharing economy”; they’re the economic engine of social media; they’re the architecture of the “attention economy” and the inspiration for claims about the “end of ownership.” Students will receive iPads.

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Hack Education

JUNE 14, 2016

As part of the course, students are engaging in a “Great Ed-Tech Debate,” arguing one side or another of a variety of topics: that technology enhances learning, that technology is a force for equity, that social media is ruining childhood, and so on. Google’s origins are at Stanford. LOGO came from MIT.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2018

From the Google blog : “ Chromebook tablets for versatile learning.” Speaking of Google , Wired reports that “Children’s YouTube is still churning out blood, suicide and cannibalism.” ” Apple held one of its big media events this week, this one focused on education.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Then there was the infamous anti-diversity memo distributed by Google engineer James Damore and leaked to the press this summer that charged that efforts the company (and the industry more broadly) had taken to address diversity were misguided as women are biologically ill-suited to computer science – which is, of course, totally b t.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids have iPads. Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. Bill Gates wouldn’t let his kids have cellphones. Green Imperial Pigeon.

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

And speaking of copyrighting a language of a warlike people, the Oracle v Google case had its closing arguments this week. On Thursday, the judge gave Google the victory , ruling that the company’s use of the Java API fell under fair use provisions. “ Key Tensions in the Field of Learning Analytics ” by Bodong Chen.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

.” Via The Mercury News : “In Apple’s backyard, iPads ignite furor in schools.” ” Parents in the affluent school district are pushing back on the mandate that middle schoolers use iPads. Fascinating how affluent parents in the shadow of Google and Apple HQs respond to ed-tech, no?). “G Suite.”).

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