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JUNE 8, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ UVa Library’s Plan to Cut Stacks by Half Sparks Faculty Concerns.” “ Khan Academy launches free Official LSAT Prep ,” says the Khan Academy blog.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)

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MAY 19, 2017

Here are the education technology companies that have raised money from ISPs. ” The New York Times looks at “ anti-tax fervor ” in southern Oregon , which will result in the one public library in Roseburg closing its doors. ” Edsurge profiles MEDSKL , which is like Khan Academy but for medical school.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Via The Guardian : “US library to enforce jail sentences for overdue books.” ” That’s the Athens-Limestone public library in Alabama (and that’s completely f *d up). .” Via Boston.com : “How a state senate primary became a charter school proxy war.” ” Education in the Courts.

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AUGUST 11, 2017

” Via The Intercept : “These Are the Technology Firms Lining Up to Build Trump’s ‘Extreme Vetting’ Program.” Jen Howard on “What Happened to Google’s Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books ?” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Khan Academy, for example, had $27.9

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JUNE 23, 2017

“technologizing” the government. A New York district court awarded Elsevier US$15 million in damages for copyright infringement by Sci-Hub , the Library of Genesis (LibGen) project and related sites.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Tech CEOs visited the White House to talk about “modernizing” a.k.a.

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JUNE 29, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Wired on the project : “‘ ICE Is Everywhere’: Using Library Science to Map the Separation Crisis.” ” Via MIT Technology Review : “Rebuilding Germany ’s centuries-old vocational program.”

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NOVEMBER 24, 2017

” Education Dive profiles Khan Academy’s Khan Lab School. (It It will be interesting to compare the success or failure of Khan Lab School with the failure of AltSchool. Via The MIT Technology Review : “Finally, a Useful Application for VR: Training Employees.” Another story about harassment.

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APRIL 28, 2017

Via Campus Technology : “ Pearson Expands Textbook Rental Program.” Via Edsurge : “ Khan Academy ’s New ‘Teacher Aid’ Tool Goes for a Test Drive in Southern California.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Google announces more updates to its pseudo-LMS, Google Classroom.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Bridget Foster has been named the head of the SIIA’s ed-tech association, the Education Technology Industry Network. ” Via Education Dive : “ Digital ed tech pricing library brings transparency to procurement.” ” Via Techcrunch : “ Pixar offers free online lessons in storytelling via Khan Academy.”

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