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Revisiting #ALATTT: Trend #1: AR/VR/MR and a touch of AI

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Back at ALA Midwinter, I was honored to present on LITA’s Top Tech Trends panel , with fellow panelists Kate Tkacik, Suzanne Wulf, Becky Yoose, James Neal and Cynthia Dudenhoffer. Each of us was initially assigned two trends to explore and discuss. I thought I’d break my own two ish trends and resources into two posts.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. ” “ OER , CARE , Stewardship, and the Commons” by “Econproph” Jim Luke. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. million total.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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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.” And accordingly, platforms are the underlying trend that ties together popular narratives about technology and the economy in general.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” IHE blogger Joshua Kim offers “25 Million Reasons Why LinkedIn / Microsoft Will Buy Coursera.” ” (“Reinventing the transcript” seems to be one of the things folks are hoping to make “ trend ” this year.). ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. What’s Going On?”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“ 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. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” (No surprise, my review of “2017 trends” will be very different.).

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via the BBC : “ Accenture and Microsoft plan digital IDs for millions of refugees.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via Edsurge : “Why a Robot-Filled Education Future May Not Be as Scary as You Think.” ” Via Axios : “Trump plans to scrap rule allowing foreign founders into U.S.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Nope, robots will not be doing this job of content moderation , as Facebook recently boasted at its developer conference. Microsoft had a media event this week. Via The New York Times : “Microsoft Looks to Regain Lost Ground in the Classroom.” Here is the Microsoft blog post announcing its new products.

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