Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. For the past ten years, every ten months or so, someone would pen an op-ed claiming it was time to ban laptops in the classroom. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. And on and on and on.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

There were other high profile incidents as well: the refusal, for example, to give visas to the all-girls robotics team from Afghanistan. The actions of the administration should not come as a surprise. ” What happens to all the DREAMers’ data – data that they willingly handed over to the federal government?

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Pi-top , the maker of a Raspberry Pi-compatible laptop, has raised $16 million from Hambro Perks and Committed Capital. ” The survey was conducted by learning analytics company Civitas Learning. Content warning: contains hype about “ mindsets.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). And then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s venture philanthropy firm and its commitment to fund “personalized learning.” Microsoft Windows devices – again, that’s laptops and tablets – remained at about 22%.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

“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. Via Techcrunch : “ Lilwil ’s personalized learning engine teaches teachers how to teach.”

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