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Video Assignments Are the New Term Paper. How Does That Change Teaching and Learning?

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This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. The Google-owned service is widely used that it may already soak up more than a third of all mobile traffic. This is part 3. Read part 1 and part 2. Digital video has taken the world by storm.

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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

Edsurge

In the past couple of years the company has hired hundreds of software engineers, from the likes of Chinese internet giants Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent, to make that happen. Sinovation Ventures , a venture firm founded in 2009 by Google’s former chief in China. Wonder Workshop , which develops robot toys that teach kids how to code.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

This talk was delivered at Virginia Commonwealth University today as part of a seminar co-sponsored by the Departments of English and Sociology. ” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“ James Damore is moving his lawsuit against Google out of court,” The Verge reports. Here’s the Boing Boing headline on a new journal article about the Manne seminars at George Mason University : “A data-driven look at the devastating efficacy of a far-right judge-education program.” Wait wait wait.