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Rule of Thumb: No Facebook Flirting with Students
(flickr.com/Caitlinator) Looks like there’s one place the Bloomberg administration’s techno-enthusiasm can’t touch, and that’s the New York City Department of Education. After a nationwide rash of...
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Watch a Couple of Math Teachers Trolling Khan Academy
Watch out, you've made the math teachers mad. (Photo: jurvetson) Video-learning nonprofit Khan Academy is basically the hottest thing in edtech, complete with TED talk and Gates Foundation grant. But...
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Lore Launches a Rebuilt Platform, Aims to be a LinkedIn for Education
Meet the new Lore. (Photo: Screencap) The latest from edtech startup Lore: Today the company debuts a rebuilt platform, designed to function more like a social network and less like those dreadful...
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Dissatisfied With Her Kids’ Grades, Mom Just Hacks In and Changes Them
"My mom told me to." (Photo: Filmofilia A Pennsylvania mom is on the hook for criminal computer trespassing after using her job at the Northwestern Lehigh School District to--in a move straight out of...
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Wrath About the Math of Khan: Puncturing Khan Academy’s Hype Balloon
Don't get struck by lightning when hanging with Bill Gates. (Photo: jurvetson) We're calling it: This Mystery Science Theater 3000 trolling of Sal Khan’s Khan Academy videos, posted in June, was the...
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Wrathful Khan: Khan Academy’s Sal Khan Responds to Critical Post Editorial...
Absolutely related. (Image: Memory-Alpha.org) The pissing match between Mathalicious founder Karim Kai Ani and Khan Academy founder Salman "Sal" Khan is heating up! Today Mr. Khan responded to Mr....
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Booting Up: Welcome to the Wonderful World of Piracy, Netflix!
yarrrr Now that Netflix is in the original content business, the company has to deal with piracy. It took some time, but House of Cards is now all over the torrent sites. [Variety] Is Apple working on...
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And Now Here’s a Kickstarter to Raise Money for Educational LARPing
Missouri LARPers having what looks like a pretty good time, actually. (Photo: Evan-Amos, via Wikipedia) For a nice change of pace, here's an innovation in education that's got absolutely nothing to do...
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