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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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Platforms provide the substructure for the “gig economy” and the “sharing economy”; they’re the economic engine of social media; they’re the architecture of the “attention economy” and the inspiration for claims about the “end of ownership.” How is Google influencing policy?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“Will Reversal of FCC’s ‘Net Neutrality’ Policy Help or Hurt Schools?” “ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity ,” ProPublica reports. Department of Labor as a senior policy adviser.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Inside Higher Ed : “Frank Brogan, the chancellor of the Pennsylvania State University System from 2013 until retiring this year, has joined the Department of Education in the Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development – likely ahead of a nomination to a separate position.” ” That’s Sherry Turkle.