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Year in Review: Our Top Edtech Business Stories of 2018

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Apple and Google continue to up the ante in their quest to win adoption in classrooms. Former Google Design Ethicist: Relying on Big Tech in Schools Is a ‘Race to the Bottom’. Google’s 12 Education Updates Include Classwork and a (Slight) Classroom Makeover. The conventional answer is STEM and computer science education.

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How Education is Becoming the Front Lines for Debating the Role of Algorithms

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A few years ago, when he was a student at the University of British Columbia, he was an activist on privacy issues and the use of algorithms on campus. Listen to this week’s podcast on Apple Podcasts , Overcast , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music , or wherever you listen to podcasts, or use the player below.

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T&L’S ISTE 2018 BEST OF SHOW AWARDS WINNERS

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ACER CHROMEBOOK TAB 10 ( WWW.ACER.COM/AC/EN/US/CONTENT/HOME ) The Acer Chromebook Tab 10 will be used in classrooms to expand and enhance student learning. In addition, CatchOn helps district administrators mitigate student data privacy risks associated with unknown tool usage.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” (“…She’s unlikely to encounter local students when she’s there.”). Department of Education Announces STEM , Computer Science Education Grant Opportunities.” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. ” “Who Has More of Your Personal Data Than Facebook ?”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. Google Reader. Google shut down Reader in 2013 , citing declining use of RSS. Arguably, the closure of Google Reader was not just a blow to news consumption; it was a blow to blogging as well. And “free” doesn’t last. The TED Talk.

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” The Information reported that Rubin was “involved in an inappropriate relationship with a female subordinate while he was at Google.” “ Oxford and Cambridge are said to be illegally spying on students for money,” says Quartz. ” The report comes from Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz College.

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He believes the future of education means all STEM, no arts and no humanities. Via The New York Times : “ Google , in Post-Obama Era, Aggressively Woos Republicans ” – so enjoy that Google Certification, educators. Via Education Week : “ Mississippi Attorney General Sues Google Over Student-Data Privacy.”