Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

The pace of additions should be concerning to anyone who cares about personalized learning and/or student data privacy. Tagged on: April 23, 2017 Is It Time to Break Up Google? | Google and its partners have pitched Chromebooks as affordable, simple to use and manage, and rugged enough to survive student use.

EdTech 150

EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 150

Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2019

By the way, this resource is excellent for any Google for Education school that uses the Chrome browser, not just Chromebooks! While I can’t actually fit 100 ideas into this blog post and podcast episode, I can offer you a FREE Google Chromebook resource that is loaded with ideas, lessons, apps, and more! Click To Tweet.

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Chromebook Khan Academy Classroom Google 78

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Do you know that feeling when you are told your questions about student privacy are unfounded by a representative of a company that earns 86% of its total revenue from advertising? “I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link].

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EdTech Chromebook Laptops iPad 170

Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

Ever wonder how stories promoted by ‘thought leaders’ on social media get selected? Tech devices won't fix our education system | Lockport Union Sun & Journal → Former Education Secretary Arne Duncan recently issued a plea for greater student access to high-tech tools. "This

EdTech 170

EdTech E-rate OER Coursera 170

Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A Virginia circuit court on Thursday ruled against a George Mason University student group seeking access to donor agreements between a university foundation and the Charles Koch Foundation.” ” The Pew Research Center on “ Activism in the Social Media Age.”

Education 43

Education Khan Academy Blackboard Report 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

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. Handing over data, often quite thoughtlessly, has become par for the course – in education and in society more generally. Students cheat, we’re repeatedly told.

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Data Technology Education Software 40

MindShift

MARCH 24, 2015

In some cases, large amounts of student work, and literally millions of tiny interactions, are collected and stored in the cloud. Think of all the edits on a school paper written in Google Docs. Or all the interactions a student has with a Khan Academy math program. “There are harms that can happen regardless of intent.”

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Student Data Privacy Data Khan Academy Pearson 28

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools. And “free” doesn’t last. Um, they do.)

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

And speaking of copyrighting a language of a warlike people, the Oracle v Google case had its closing arguments this week. On Thursday, the judge gave Google the victory , ruling that the company’s use of the Java API fell under fair use provisions. This week: “ OpenStax Partners with panOpen to Expand OER Access.”

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Education MOOC Common Core Trends 52

Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

Via Techcrunch : “ Udacity and Google launch free career courses for interview prep, resume writing and more.” ” The head of the OECD ’s education division, Andreas Schleicher, writes in The Hill about “Educating students for the fourth industrial revolution.” May Be About to Fire Its President.”

Khan Academy 45

Khan Academy Education Facebook E-rate 45

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

was named in an investigation by The Associated Press last year for sharing racially charged content on social media.” Via The Guardian : “ Trump bans agencies from ‘providing updates on social media or to reporters’ ” This ban has been targeted at scientists at the EPA and USDA in particular.

Education 40

Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 40