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OCTOBER 6, 2017

“‘Eton for all’: will robot teachers mean everyone gets an elite education? Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. There’s more about Mattel’s robots and privacy in the privacy section below. classrooms: An army of robots to help autistic students learn social skills.” million total.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2017

. “ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity ,” ProPublica reports. Schools should consider the ways in which their own social media surveillance re-inscribes these sorts of violent, nationalist policies.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Maybe social media is broken, Cathy O’Neil suggests. “ Media Literacy When the Platforms Are Complicit ” by Bill Fitzgerald. . “ Media Literacy When the Platforms Are Complicit ” by Bill Fitzgerald. One of those “trends” is surely “character development” (a.k.a.

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MAY 5, 2017

” Nope, robots will not be doing this job of content moderation , as Facebook recently boasted at its developer conference. I wrote about social-emotional learning (algorithms) as a “trend to watch.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. For more news about robots not taking jobs, see the HR section above.

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AUGUST 4, 2018

Via The Guardian : “ Student Loans Company ‘spied on vulnerable students’ social media’ ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. Also from Feldstein : “ Moodle and Blackboard Cut Ties.” ” Oooh, I am sensing a trend here. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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

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