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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). The company provides “interactive lessons and content on a mobile platform to low-skilled workers.” “All EFF ’d Up” – Yasha Levine on “Silicon Valley’s astroturf privacy shakedown.” Cell-Ed has raised $1.5

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

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Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. Pokémon Go generated more than $160 million by the end of July, hitting $600 million in revenue within its first 90 days on the market – the fastest mobile game to do so. .”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. In 2011, Barber went to work for Pearson as its Chief Education Advisor, continuing his advocacy for competition, data collection, measurements, and standards-based reforms. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness.

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