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Hack Education Weekly News

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Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via EdScoop : “ Google adds new terms to comply with Connecticut student data privacy laws.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). National) Education Politics. It has raised $69.7

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. “Assertions that the U.S.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um,

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

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I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.) Furthermore, at launch, Pokémon Go demanded users sign over a great deal of personal data and grant permissions to the app that, for a time , gave it access to a user’s entire Google account.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” (“…She’s unlikely to encounter local students when she’s there.”). ’” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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According to the article, it’s looking to sell off its two remaining schools, Arizona Summit Law School and Florida Law School. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” These headlines just kill me. ” More MOOC data in the “research” section below. But stop anyway.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via Inside Higher Ed : “The number of career colleges and the number of credentials they award have dropped by roughly 20 percent in the last four years, new data from the U.S. National) Education Politics. Education Department show.”