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ABL pedagogy aims to enrich students’ academic experience and learning outcomes by connecting theory with practice, and concepts with methods, using data and insight they obtain through engagement with the larger world.” CommonCore) for individual students. ” (1). The study of teaching adults. Informal Learning.
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More data collection. You can see neoliberalism, for example, in efforts towards privatization and the outsourcing of core technological capacities to third party vendors. You can see neoliberalism, for example, in efforts towards privatization and the outsourcing of core technological capacities to third party vendors.
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” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” More on employment data in the “research and data” section below. ” Speaking of openwashing : “ Pearson CEO Fallon Talks CommonCore , Rise of ‘Open’ Resources.” Data, Privacy, and Surveillance.
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.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Education Dive makes claims about “ MOOCs as tools for equity in under-resourced high schools.” ” Elsewhere, more claims about “the global poor” and MOOCs (and other ed-tech companies) in Edsurge. .”
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Via Politico : Stolen “emails from the Democratic National Committee show DNC Deputy Communications Director Eric Walker telling his colleagues to avoid mentioning the CommonCore in a video. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. Get rid of it.’”
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Via The Seattle Times : “A cellphone belonging to the man who claims he shot and wounded another man in self-defense during a demonstration last month at the University of Washington had been wiped clean of data before being seized by police, according to search-warrant documents filed in King County Superior Court.”
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” I’m a little surprised that either of these women – both Democrats, both CommonCore supporters, if nothing else – would be under serious consideration. ” Palantir is the data analytics company co-founded by Peter Thiel and funded in part by the CIA. is disappointed in CommonCore.
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Via the AP : “A new Tennessee law requiring public school districts to provide student data to charter schools faces its first tests with pushback from districts.” ” Testing, Testing… PARCC Inc , best known as one of the CommonCore test-makers, is “moving in a new direction,” Politico reports.
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” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The IRS data retrieval tool that let financial aid applicants automatically import income information into the FAFSA won’t be restored for the current aid cycle, said James Runcie, chief operating officer of the Office of Federal Student Aid, in written testimony to Congress Wednesday.”
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