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Categorizing you
The concept of targeting social media users has received a great deal of attention following the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal. Researchers have known for some time just how accurately this could be done using freely available data such as … Continue reading
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Padlet changes cost to educators
Padlet has long been a useful tool for educators and it has added new capabilities. Padlet has increased the cost and is now $12 per month for classroom access. For constant use this is a reasonable price. When it comes … Continue reading
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K-12 student access to technology at home
The Department of Education has just released a report focused on student access to technology outside of the classroom. Here is a link for a summary of some of the findings and the pdf detailing the entire study. In 2015, … Continue reading
Facebook – the good, bad, and ugly
If you are interested in the Facebook privacy issue or social media, privacy, and free more generally, I recommend the first half-hour or so of this podcast from This Week in Google. This is not a one-sided conversation and most … Continue reading
Strategy not based in reality
I like this 9to5Mac (Bradley Chambers) reaction to the Apple education event. Chambers makes his argument by recalling his experience covering the 2012 education event. That event focused mainly on the limitations of traditional textbooks and the potential of iBooks … Continue reading
The problem is us.
Researchers investigating the spread of true and fake news have made some important discoveries. Important not so much because the discoveries are surprising, but because the discoveries provide data on an important problem. Fake news spreads faster than the … Continue reading
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