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.” How is Google influencing policy? ” But what did Facebook do?

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

He also talked about how he thinks policy shifts like the implementation of the common-core standards and the adoption of “open” educational resources are likely to affect the K-12 market, and his company’s work. But it will be paid for if it demonstrates real value [in]…helping more students to be successful and make progress.

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Common Core Pearson Resources Company 76

Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

You hear a lot of these sorts of proclamations when it comes to “personalized learning,” which is (increasingly) frequently invoked in direct opposition to some imagined or invented version of learning in the present or in the past.

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Personalized Learning Learning Course Handbook 83

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

As we wrapped up 2020, we thought for sure that 2021 might bring us a reprieve from pandemic learning. Virtual and hybrid learning continued into the spring, but then classrooms welcomed back students for full-time in-person learning in the fall. Well, it did–but it also didn’t. –Amy Gulley, M.Ed

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

One of the “hot new trends” in education technology is “learning analytics” – this idea that if you collect enough data about students that you can analyze it and in turn algorithmically direct students towards more efficient and productive behaviors, institutions towards more efficient and productive outcomes.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

.” (See, I find it so telling that folks can write about CZI – see a couple of the stories above in the “venture philanthropy” section and gush about its plans for “personalized learning” and not ever really talk about what a s**t-show for democracy Facebook is.).

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Education Khan Academy Blackboard Report 43

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

. “High school students will be allowed to carry mace in the 2016–2017 school year after the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education agreed to remove prohibitive language and amend its policy,” the Salisbury Post reports. Via Techcrunch : “ Lilwil ’s personalized learning engine teaches teachers how to teach.”

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

And certainly the expectation of many ed-tech products (and increasingly school policy) is that parents will do just this — participate in the incessant monitoring of student data. As we move forward with new technologies in learning analytics, how and who will be evaluating the claims that people put forward?”. 3D Printing.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Some technology companies have joined some of these lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Meanwhile, DREAMers are already being arrested and deported. This software would track and analyze the social media and digital activity of visa holders in order to identify those who might be “high risk.”

Data 78

Data Education Software Social Media 78

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

Education Week has a Q&A with Stanford professor Larry Cuban on personalized learning and progressive education. Via Quartz : “A lawyer rewrote Instagram’s privacy policy so kids and parents can have a meaningful talk about privacy.” Robots and Other (Ed-Tech) Science Fiction.

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MOOC Education Robotics Report 40

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

“Can Venture Capital Put Personalized Learning Within Reach of All Students?” It’s so revealing how this is framed – the problem with “personalized learning” up ’til now? “Examining ethical and privacy issues surrounding learning analytics ” by Tony Bates.

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Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

.” “The California State Legislature is now considering two bills that would build a database firewall to block the flow of personal information from state and local government to federal efforts to deport immigrants and register people based on their religion, ethnicity, or national origin,” according to the EFF.

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Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 40