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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 19, 2017 Cyber attacks a serious, and under-reported, threat to Boulder Valley companies | Boulder Daily Camera → Specific to the Boulder, CO-area, but useful overview of cybersecurity trends. For experts, these sorts of apps come with privacy and best practice teaching concerns. That's a lot of computers.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via EdScoop : “ Google adds new terms to comply with Connecticut student data privacy laws.” ” Via Bustle : “I’ve Paid $18,000 To A $24,000 Student Loan , & I Still Owe $24,000.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Via The New York Times : “ L.G.B.T.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Chalkbeat : “Robotics is bringing Betsy DeVos to Detroit for the first time as education secretary.” ” (“…She’s unlikely to encounter local students when she’s there.”). Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. National) Education Politics. Billion People?”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019.

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Hack Education

” According to Edsurge , Knewton is now a courseware company and not a “robot tutor in the sky.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” There’s some robot news in the privacy section below. “ Oxford and Cambridge are said to be illegally spying on students for money,” says Quartz.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Education Week : “ Mississippi Attorney General Sues Google Over Student-Data Privacy.” “Can robotics teach problem solving to students?” “Learning technology once reserved for special needs students is now in everyone’s hands. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.