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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?). Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites. I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009.

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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. ” Via Education Week : “ Teach For America Ends Pre-Training Pilot Focused on Cultural Competency.” From the HR Department. ” ( PDF ). .”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Perhaps the district didn’t know what New York City learned when it audited its old data portal : it found that less than 3% of parents had ever logged in. There are a variety of reasons for this: language barriers, lack of Internet access, incompatible devices, lack of training. And everyone clicks and rages and snipes all over again.

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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. Biases based on the training data. Phishing emails posing as the University of California student health plan. Keyloggers at the University of Iowa.

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