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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via The Intercept : “Chinese Corporation Alibaba Joins Group Ghostwriting American Laws.” For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” ” Via The Washington Post : “Student loan servicing group sues D.C.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. platforms are digital infrastructures that enable two or more groups to interact. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?).

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“Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot ,” says The Wall Street Journal in a story about “Jill Watson” (of course it’s a female name), an automated teaching assistant at Georgia Tech. The ALA has released library privacy guidelines for students in K–12 schools.

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Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Republican Tax Proposal Gets Failing Grade From Higher-Ed Groups.” The Digital Public Library of America has a new head : John S. Educators Discuss Pros and Cons of Learning Analytics.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” tl;dr: He doesn’t like it.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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And like so many products on this list, 3D printing was hailed as a revolution in education, and schools were encouraged to reorient libraries and shop classes towards “maker spaces” which would give students opportunities to print their plastic designs. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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” The Thurgood Marshall College Fund , a national group supporting public and private HBCUs, announced a $25.6 Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” edX is offering an online master’s degree with Georgia Tech : an OMS (online master’s in science) in Analytics. ” “ A.I.

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” The chain in question: Celerity Educational Group. The American Library Association announced its youth media awards. “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.