Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. Might we also study whether learners with solid K12 library inquiry experience perform better than the student in the general SHEG sample ? You can now find out. Beyond the Bubble History Assessments.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

“ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity ,” ProPublica reports. The business of OER. ” This seems to fly in the face of the library profession ’s belief in privacy. Immigration and Education.

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Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

” Via the BBC : “ Accenture and Microsoft plan digital IDs for millions of refugees.” 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.” ” What could possibly go wrong?

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Education Kaplan Pearson Elsevier 53

Hack Education

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. At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

” Student workers at the University of Chicago’s library have voted to unionize. “ The top 5 trends in K–12 ed tech – and where they’re headed,” according to Education Dive. “ Microsoft is really scared of Chromebooks in businesses and schools,” according to The Verge.

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

. “In the Leeds offering, for example, each course certificate will cost £59 and there are five taught courses; the sixth assessment course, which leads to 10 credits, is priced at £250 – making a total cost of £545 – which will also cover access to online library content,” The Guardian reports. (It’ll

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

The American Library Association announced its youth media awards. To continue a trend that I monitored last year , it’ll be worth watching who becomes a power-player in the business of ed-tech procurement. Via Techcrunch : “ Microsoft launches Intune for Education to counter Google’s Chromebooks in schools.”

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