Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

The earliest learning management systems were portals of sorts, offering Internet access to and a browser-based interface for the student information system (SIS) and the data it stored on students and courses: student records, rosters, class schedules, and the like. (I mean, one of its founders celebrated. Not sure anyone else did.)

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MARCH 23, 2018

. “ Does tech designed to personalize learning actually benefit students? “ Can a New Approach to Information Literacy Reduce Digital Polarization? Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Techcrunch : “This tortoise shows kids that robot abuse is bad.” ” “ Robot abuse ”?!

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

My project also makes some of the information available in a machine-readable format instead of solely in a PDF. (It And gone from the horizon, these technologies from last year’s report: learning analytics, augmented reality and VR, makerspaces, affective computing, and robotics. Were they adopted?

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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.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Entrepreneur.com repeats this old story : “ Personalised learning with the help of Artificial Intelligence will change the Education System.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2018

Here’s Edsurge : “Udacity VP of Learning: ‘We Never Start Anything Out of Academic Interest’ ” Here’s Techcrunch : “Udacity introduces real robots and virtual words to help students build skills.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” asks Edsurge.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

” “The California State Legislature is now considering two bills that would build a database firewall to block the flow of personal information from state and local government to federal efforts to deport immigrants and register people based on their religion, ethnicity, or national origin,” according to the EFF.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The word “intelligence” is also used, of course, to describe the gathering and assessment of tactical information – information, often confidential information, with political or military value. You can’t opt out of the learning management system. The risk isn’t only hacking.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

” From Edsurge : “​Invasive or Informative? Educators Discuss Pros and Cons of Learning Analytics.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” The $1700 robot dog also requires a subscription plan. Robot stories are also Betteridge’s Law of Headlines stories, wouldn’t you know it?

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JULY 13, 2018

Via Politico : “The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said on Wednesday that the Education Department is stonewalling its attempts to gather information about Navient as part of the CFPB’s lawsuit against the student loan giant.” The university gave false information to U.S. Upgrades and Downgrades.

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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. How do algorithms shape news and information sharing? Its algorithms are not merely informative; they are extra-judicial. The actions of the administration should not come as a surprise.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Course Signals, a software product developed by Purdue University, was designed to boost “student success” by using learning analytics to inform teachers, students, and staff to potential problems, labeling students with a red/yellow/green scheme to indicate their danger in failing a course. Course Signals. Chatbot Instructors.

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MAY 13, 2016

“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. ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. From the HR Department.

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JANUARY 12, 2017

A bill in Missouri would end tenure for all new faculty hires starting in 2018 and require more student access to information about the job market for majors. Education Week has a Q&A with Stanford professor Larry Cuban on personalized learning and progressive education. Robots and Other (Ed-Tech) Science Fiction.

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