Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

Take, for example, the founding editor of the technology trade magazine Wired , Kevin Kelly. This data comes from everywhere: sensors used to gather climate information, posts to social media sites, digital pictures and videos, purchase transaction records, and cell phone GPS signals to name a few. This data is big data.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

“I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link]. Tagged on: March 18, 2017 G Suite for Education Now Open for Personal Google Accounts, Outside Domains | Campus Technology → Raises privacy questions. " says Google Family Link manager Saurabh Sharma.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Previously, she was a Technology Integrator at Sacred Heart teaching robotics and programming to 5th through 7th grades and supporting the faculty''s technology and integration needs. BIO : Jaime Casap is the Global Education Evangelist at Google, Inc. She is currently the Director of Academic Technology for St.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2018

But as recently as 2016, a Gallup research poll conducted by Google found that only 40 percent of U.S. Within District 36, Burleson explains, “We have buckets of technology: construction, robotics, circuitry and electronics, and coding. Robotics and coding: Robot Turtle board game, Sphero, NAO robot.

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Anil Dash and Gina Trapani announced they’re closing down their social media analytics product ThinkUp. That is, major social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter increasingly made it difficult for ThinkUp to work with their APIs. Who owns your data – whether it’s social media or school-related?

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Hack Education

AUGUST 25, 2017

” Via The Nation : “ Trump’s Border Security May Search Your Social Media by ‘Tone’ ” Via Education Week : “Setback for DACA Supporters Places Program’s Fate Squarely in Trump’s Hands.” Walmart and Google partner to take on Amazon. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

“‘Eton for all’: will robot teachers mean everyone gets an elite education? Google had a big media to-do this week. Via Ars Technica : “Google unveils a $249 smart camera that decides what’s worth photographing.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” asks The New Statesman.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

I’ve never seen an education story receive quite as much attention from non-educators on social media. The New York Times Magazine interviews the new Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. Via WHIO : “ School social media director fired after correcting student’s misspelled tweet.”

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Nope, robots will not be doing this job of content moderation , as Facebook recently boasted at its developer conference. CNN tries to explain “Why Google , Apple and Microsoft are battling for education.” Via Diggit Magazine : “The end of Academia.edu : how business takes over, again.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

World Magazine on how Liberty University handles its student newspaper: “Papered over.” Via CNBC : “ Google , Apple and 13 other companies that no longer require employees to have a college degree.” ” Via the Google blog : “ VR Labs open doors of opportunity for STEM students.”

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Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

” Via Bloomberg : “Inside Google ’s Shadow Workforce.” ” Just make a note of this for the next time you hear someone tout how great the hiring process and work environment are at Google. ” The New York Times Magazine has an incredible profile of Gwyneth Paltrow ’s “ Goop ” empire.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

“The Education of Betsy DeVos ” – a profile of the Secretary of Education in Politico Magazine. Via Vice : “ Google Docs Is Randomly Flagging Files for Violating Its Terms of Service.” ” “How Social Media Can Help Teach Good Writing,” according to Edsurge. million total.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Via The New York Magazine : “The Class of 1946–2018 Twenty-seven school-shooting survivors bear their scars, and bear witness.” ” Also via The New York Times : “ Google Faces Internal Backlash Over Handling of Sexual Harassment.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Thanks in advance.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Google Unveils Job Training Initiative With $1 Billion Pledge.” Via Techcrunch : “ Kudos wants to be a gentle introduction to social media sharing for kids.” Via Techcrunch : “ Kudos wants to be a gentle introduction to social media sharing for kids.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

” New Nanodegrees from Udacity : Digital Marketing and Robotics. Via The Outline : “ Google ’s featured snippets are worse than fake news.” “When Social Media Assignments Increase Risks for Vulnerable Students” by Monica Bulger and Jade E. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

Fascinating how affluent parents in the shadow of Google and Apple HQs respond to ed-tech, no?). The social media platform had raised $2.5 ” “ Google’s Toontastic storytelling app for kids goes 3D,” says Techcrunch. .” Robots and Other (Ed-Tech) Science Fiction. “G Suite.”).

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Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

Via Techcrunch : “ Udacity and Google launch free career courses for interview prep, resume writing and more.” ” Via the Google blog : “ Teaching coding , changing lives: Google.org supports MolenGeek.” ” Via the Google blog : “ Teaching coding , changing lives: Google.org supports MolenGeek.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

was named in an investigation by The Associated Press last year for sharing racially charged content on social media.” Via The Guardian : “ Trump bans agencies from ‘providing updates on social media or to reporters’ ” This ban has been targeted at scientists at the EPA and USDA in particular.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

But I wanted to consider too why the stories we repeatedly tell about education and education technology were so fanciful – stories about impending disruptions and revolutions and robot teachers and brain zappers and so on. The image above from Google Trends helps demonstrate how popular the phrase has become in the intervening months.

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