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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

He co-founded the company in 1999 with Maria Machado, who also got her start in the semiconductor industry before turning her attention to education. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep hyping that MOOC thing. Via Edsurge : “ MOOCs Are No Longer Massive. ” Via Class Central : “Class Central’s Top 50 MOOCs of All Time (2018 edition).” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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How a Pandemic Could Change Higher Education

Edsurge

It helps me have a finger on the pulse of what’s going on for learners and particularly for instructor’s work in academia, in business, and in K-12 industries. I remember I used to go around, and I would give a presentation about the importance of online learning. We need to be thinking about that. But we’re not caught up to that now.

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Driverless Ed-Tech: The History of the Future of Automation in Education

Hack Education

This talk was presented at The University of Edinburgh's Moray House School of Education. “The Year of the MOOC” – I was summoned to Palo Alto, California for a small gathering to discuss the future of teaching, learning, and technology. “Robots are coming for your job.” Let me begin with a story.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The USA Today : “Kids on winning robotics team told, ‘Go back to Mexico’ ” The kids were from Pleasant Run Elementary School in Indianapolis. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ Coursera Removes Biometric Identity Verification Using Keystroke Matching,” Class Central reports.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Should Children Form Emotional Bonds With Robots? So much industry-driven fun fun fun. More details about more industry money for Code.org in the venture philanthropy section below. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “Huh?”