- Jan 2016
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hackeducation.com hackeducation.com
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Has Techcrunch written about it?
It would have been more effective to reference a website that is more widely known, I've never heard of this due to the fact thats its most likely just common in the tech enthusiast community.
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learning on the Web and with the Web, learning that is of the Web
This is really general and seems like filler that doesn't really make a point but sounds cool.
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ed-tech: it is acceptably behind-the-curve.
I haven't fully understand the meaning "ed-tech" is it the technology/programs utilized in various academic institutions? and if so, it seems like every class I take the technology and programs being used are constantly changing and advancing so I don't understand how its behind the curve. Maybe this author just expects too much.
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This is innovation. This is innovation.
Saying it twice for dramatic effect?
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Perhaps because academia doesn’t have the resources. Perhaps because of a focus (real or perceived) on theoretical, rather than applied research. Perhaps because of a disregard or distaste for the commercial. Perhaps because academia — some parts of it at least, and some institution
this dude definitely has some sort of personal vendetta against Google. He's definitely right about this, this type of innovation isn't possible in "academia" because individual universities don't have the billion dollar revenue like Google does.
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Dammit, I’m here to talk about the “Domain of One’s Own”!
took him a while to get to it...I found myself thinking..what is this article about again?
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It’s also interesting to consider why some people balk at a “Domain of One’s Own” being innovative and yet clamor over MOOCs as the greatest and newest thing education has ever seen.
did he ever mention what MOOC is or am I just oblivious?
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“Is this idea ‘the next Google’?"
People always hype websites by saying it's "the next google" but we've all seen firsthand that its going to be a very long time, if ever, that any search engine surpasses google. Nice try, Bing.
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What you search for on Google. Your Gmail. Your Google Calendar plans. Your friends on Google+. What you’ve bought with Google Wallet. What you’ve downloaded from Google Play. What you’ve watched on YouTube. Where you head on Google Maps (and by extension, where the Google Self-Driving Car would know to take you.) What you spy with Google Glass. So much data.
Most people would feel that there privacy is violated by this fact, but I don't think I have anything to hide so I've never really cared.
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the number of Internet-connected devices in US homes today now outnumbers the number of people in the country itself
'merica.
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Our social connections mapped. Warrantless spying by governments – not just on suspected terrorists, but on all of us.
Big brother is watching.
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It mines this data purportedly to offer us better products and services and, of course, to sell ads.
My father has a home-remodeling business and he buys lists that give him data about homeowners in the DMV area, like the price of their homes, the last time the home was remodeled, if it they have a pool, what car they drive, etc. These lists provide him with the information he needs to market to those who are most likely to pay for his work. This reminded me of that.
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We agree to the Terms of Service without reading them
The cure to cancer could be hidden in the terms of service and we would never know.
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