Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

” Also Facebook ’s DC lobbyist, Joel Kaplan, who was sitting right behind Kavanaugh as he screamed at Senators. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “Culturally Sensitive Robots Are Here to Care for the Elderly ,” Futurism.com claims. Venture) Philanthropy and the Business of Education Reform.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2019

BACK TO THE FUTURE: Weary of unwanted scrutiny, companies that once described themselves as the “Facebook of education” are now scrambling to disassociate themselves from the beleaguered social network. Coming soon: Naughty Meals DAZED AND CONFUSED: No idea what personalized learning is? Neither do we!

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Big data, open spaces, employability, utilizing maker movements, balancing innovation and accountability, privacy, collaboration, closing the digital divide, personalized learning, and navigating the hostile political climate were just a few of the concerns the audience members brought up.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Facebook’s Plans to “Personalize” Education. ” A personalized news feed, for example. And “personalization” is the underlying promise of the new education software Facebook is itself building. ” Data can be shared with any company that Facebook deems necessary.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

” (So instead of “testing” we’ll have ubiquitous, non-stop surveillance / assessment via “personalized learning.” Via The New York Times : “‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ “What Does Personalized Learning Mean? ” Winning.).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

It’s a reaction, I’d say, to the current obsession with artificial intelligence and a response to all the stories we were told this year about robots on the cusp of replacing, out-“thinking,” and out-working us. ” Personalized Learning and the Nudge. The World Economic Forum. ” “?

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Hack Education

JUNE 21, 2020

The comic is based on an essay by Simon Ramo titled "The New Technique in Education" in which he describes at some length a world in which students' education is largely automated and teachers are replaced with "learning engineers" — a phrase that has become popular again in certain ed-tech reform circles.

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Hack Education

MAY 4, 2018

Via Chalkbeat : “ Betsy DeVos ’s first Detroit visit featured Girl Scouts, robots, and talk of beluga whales.” Facebook had its big developer conference this week, and honestly I couldn’t bear to pay attention. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Activate Learning has acquired Conceptua Math.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Meanwhile, as The New York Times reports : “ Facebook , Under Fire in Russia Inquiry, Posts 79% Rise in Profit.” Tell me more about how the blockchain is going to “verify learning.” Via Getting Smart : “ Digital Promise and Facebook Developing New Micro-Credentials Program.” ” LOL.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Since they opened in 2014, Brooklyn LAB has embraced the idea of “personalized learning,” a trend in schools intended to tailor learning to students’ individual needs and interests. Related: A virtual tour of blended-learning schools, so others can see how it’s done. XQ is led by former U.S.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

” Via The Verge : “A Facebook patent would use your family photos to target ads.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via The New York Times : “Meet Zora, the Robot Caregiver.” Techcrunch weighs in on this important topic: “ LinkedIn launches its own Snapchat Stories.

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Hack Education

APRIL 21, 2017

Via the Udacity blog : “ Udacity Launches Mobile Developer Education with Facebook at F8.” This week, Edsurge covers a charter school there and its promotion of “ personalized learning ” and assessment technologies. ” I didn’t pay close attention to Facebook ’s developer event this week.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The 74 interviewed Sal Khan on personalized learning and his goal to create a “ global diploma ,” which he says his company can “uniquely” do. “ Facebook Funded Most of the Experts Who Vetted Messenger Kids ,” Wired’s Nitasha Tiku reports. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

STEAM-based learning emphasizes both hands-on and digital experiences with engineering, art, game design, prototyping in makerspaces, authoring, robotics, and much more. Students and teachers are learning to innovate hand-in-hand. Facebook events. Innovations in Games-Based Learning video series. UNC MEITE website.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

“‘Eton for all’: will robot teachers mean everyone gets an elite education? “ Is Homework Compatible With Personalized Learning? “ No State Will Measure Social-Emotional Learning Under ESSA. .” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. This Week in Betteridge’s Law of Headlines.

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

Bless this headline ( from The 74 ) ’s heart: “Educators & Experts Say Personalized Learning Is Not About Technology or Money but Leadership and Relationships.” ” Just grand that Facebook is running a bunch of media literacy and digital training courses for community colleges.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

“ Does tech designed to personalize learning actually benefit students? Lots of news this week about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. But here are some education-related stories: Via Education Week : “Privacy Experts Assess Potential K–12 Fallout From Facebook ’s Crisis of Trust.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Via The New York Times : “ Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share.” I dunno… Via Techcrunch : “ IBM led on patents in 2017, Facebook broke into top 50 for the first time.” ” Also via Techcrunch : “ Facebook brings Messenger Kids to Fire tablets.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2017

“ Should Children Form Emotional Bonds With Robots? Facebook is coming for your children. Via The New York Times : “New Facebook App for Children Ignites Debate Among Families.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “ Robot Learning Improves Student Engagement ,” the Communications of the ACM claims.

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Hack Education

JUNE 29, 2018

“ Google , Facebook , Verizon , Comcast and AT&T each contributed $200,000 to a committee opposing the proposed ballot measure, and lobbyists had estimated that businesses would spend $100 million to campaign against it before the November election.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Via The New York Times : “Early Facebook and Google Employees Form Coalition to Fight What They Built.” ” “ Facebook ’s app for kids should freak parents out,” says MIT Technology Review. ” Well, this will be useful to “personalize learning,” won’t it. .”

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Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

Via Patheos : “ BYU-Idaho Professor Fired After Defending LGBT Rights in Private Facebook Post.” ” “ Personalized learning ” equals cutting the teacher workforce in Oklahoma. Edsurge on “Bridging the School-to-Business Gap: What Public Schools Can Learn From Industry.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

” The charter school, which is closing it doors, is the Merit Preparatory Charter School , run by “personalized learning” charter chain Matchbook Learning. Via The 74 : “ Montessori Was the Original Personalized Learning. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” That is the Sophie B.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

” Via Edsurge : “The Makings (and Misgivings) of a Statewide Effort to Personalize Learning in Massachusetts.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “Teachers Are Finding Innovative Ways to Use Robots in Class,” claims Education Week. Wonder how Facebook knew that the app was so popular?

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Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

.” That’s a school district in Wisconsin , and the learning software in question is the Summit Learning Platform , created by the Summit charter school chain and built by Facebook and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. ” “ Personalized learning ” now includes working on a goat farm apparently.

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Hack Education

APRIL 27, 2018

Via Chalkbeat : “Robotics is bringing Betsy DeVos to Detroit for the first time as education secretary.” Edsurge on Education Elements : “Million-Dollar Advice: The High Cost and Limited Return on Personalized Learning Consulting.” ” “Who Has More of Your Personal Data Than Facebook ?”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

There were other high profile incidents as well: the refusal, for example, to give visas to the all-girls robotics team from Afghanistan. What did Facebook and Google’s algorithms show people in their news feeds and in their searches during the election? The actions of the administration should not come as a surprise.

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MSEDTechie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Leveraging relationships with educators One of the most simple ways to begin to breakdown your classroom walls is to build a strong PLN, or Personal Learning Network. A personal learning network is made up of people/places you go to gain knowledge, share knowledge and collaborate with others of like minds and interests.

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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

To achieve this, though, we’ll need to educate people very differently ( Robot-Proof: How Colleges Can Keep People Relevant in the Workplace ). Learners are consuming real time and constant information, media, and news via Google, Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, and forms of social media via their mobile devices.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

University of Nebraska political science professor Ari Kohen “liked” a photo on Facebook depicting a defaced campaign sign for Congressman Jeff Fortenberry. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Edsurge : “ Robots Won’t Replace Instructors , 2 Penn State Educators Argue.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

” Via The Seattle Times : “Shooter sent Facebook message to Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos before gunfire at UW protest, police say.” ” Via The New York Times : “ Facebook ’s Virtual Reality Business Gets a New Leader.” “Can robotics teach problem solving to students?”

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Hack Education

JUNE 1, 2018

The Hechinger Report on personalized learning : “The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed.” ” Via Wired : “With Venues, Oculus and Facebook Push Social VR Into New Territory.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Immigration and Education.

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Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

” “One Standardized Tests Provider Looks to Gaming and Personalized Learning to Innovate Exams” – Edsurge on ETS. Via The Guardian : “ Facebook asks users: should we allow men to ask children for sexual images ?” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Memos from HR.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

Not ed-tech per se (unless you recognize that “personalized learning” is greyballing), but according to The New York Times , “ Uber Faces Federal Inquiry Over Use of Greyball Tool to Evade Authorities.” Via Gizmodo : “ Facebook Will Add 3,000 More People to Watch Murders and Suicides.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” Via The New York Times : “ Kremlin Cash Behind Billionaire’s Twitter and Facebook Investments.” ” Via The Guardian : “ Russia funded Facebook and Twitter investments through Kushner associate.” Facebook breaks democracy and then turns around and sells you the fix. ” No.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I was inspired, I think, to select that topic because talk of “platforms” was incredibly popular in Silicon Valley – it had been for a while – as companies strove to become “the next Facebook.” Think Facebook. Arguably, one of the best candidates is the learning management system. .”

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

Via The Daily Times : “Blount County Schools building new options to personalize learning.” ” Boy, it seems as though “personalized learning” is really just code for “virtual charter schools.” “ Can personalized learning prevail? ” asks ZDNet.

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