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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via The Intercept : “Chinese Corporation Alibaba Joins Group Ghostwriting American Laws.” ” Via The Washington Post : “Student loan servicing group sues D.C. ” The Business of Job Training. Via CNBC : “ Amazon ’s cloud is looking at building a corporate training service.”

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Top 8 Advantages of an Interactive STEM Curriculum

Kitaboo on EdTech

Why is STEM Training Important? Related: 5 Ways to Use Learning Analytics in K-12 Education. An interactive STEM curriculum comprises of learning modules which test a student’s critical thinking skills. Engineering students can see and learn the functioning of a machine or robotics. Encourages Teamwork.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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platforms are digital infrastructures that enable two or more groups to interact. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites. “At the most general level,” Srnicek writes. “Forget ‘US News’ Rankings.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Chalkbeat : “ Betsy DeVos ’s first Detroit visit featured Girl Scouts, robots, and talk of beluga whales.” The Business of Job Training. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” The Spoon on robot delivery vehicles : “ Starship ’s Robots are Headed for School and Corporate Campuses.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Republican Tax Proposal Gets Failing Grade From Higher-Ed Groups.” ” Via The New York Times : “ Navy Orders New Training After Deadly Ship Collisions.” ” Apparently watching CD-ROMs isn’t sufficient training for driving Navy destroyers.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot ,” says The Wall Street Journal in a story about “Jill Watson” (of course it’s a female name), an automated teaching assistant at Georgia Tech. ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. From the HR Department.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Perhaps the district didn’t know what New York City learned when it audited its old data portal : it found that less than 3% of parents had ever logged in. There are a variety of reasons for this: language barriers, lack of Internet access, incompatible devices, lack of training. Altius Education. Course Signals. Chatbot Instructors.

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