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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). Microsoft Windows devices – again, that’s laptops and tablets – remained at about 22%. They’re amazing.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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It was one of two social media messages – the other a Twitter photo of Tunsil smoking marijuana through a gas mark – that were posted during the NFL draft. ” [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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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 For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date.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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The Weaponization of Education Data

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A hacked school Twitter account in Florida. There were other high profile incidents as well: the refusal, for example, to give visas to the all-girls robotics team from Afghanistan. Phishing emails posing as the University of California student health plan. million scammed from MacEwan University. Keyloggers at the University of Iowa.

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