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Clippy and the History of the Future of Educational Chatbots
Earlier this year, Microsoft made headlines when it debuted Tay, a new chatbot modeled to speak like a teenage girl, which rather dramatically turned into “a Hitler-loving sex robot within 24 hours” of...
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Education Politics An incredible piece of reporting by The Guardian on corporate lobbying and influence in Wisconsin politics following Scott Walker’s anti-union efforts in the state.Los Angeles Mayor...
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Re·Con·Figures: The Pigeons of Ed-tech
This talk was presented today at the Designs on eLearning conference. The full slide deck is available here.Thank you very much for inviting me to speak to you today. I confess: I was immediately...
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Presidential Campaign Politics Via Politico: “Donald Trump has put wealthy universities on alert. He warned colleges and universities Thursday night that those schools that don’t spend their endowments...
View ArticleDisciplining Education Technology
I confess. I’m a little perplexed by the recentcall to create a new discipline for education technology. There are already hundreds of academic conferences and academic publications and professional...
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Presidential Campaign Politics There was a Presidential Debate this week, but – no surprise and perhaps even a bit of a relief – education wasn’t much of an issue.Via NPR: “Hillary Clinton’s Plan For...
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US Presidential Campaign Politics There was a Vice Presidential debate this week. Among the education highlights: Republican VP candidate Mike Pencemade up a name for the university hosting the event....
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Presidential Campaign Politics There’s less than a month left of the 2016 Presidential campaign and The End can’t come soon enough.On Sunday, Clinton and Trump held their second debate. The topic of...
View ArticlePeter Thiel and the Future (and Funding) of Education Technology
The New York Times reported over the weekend that, despite a growing number of women who’ve come forward in the last week claiming that Donald Trump has groped or assaulted them, billionaire investor...
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Attending to the Digital
This talk was presented today at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California, as part of the Domain of One's Own" initiative that the school is launching. The complete...
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Presidential Campaign Politics There was a Presidential debate this week. Thankfully, it was the last one. There’s also a global wine shortage, and I’m like, no shit. We are drinking so heavily to make...
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(This Is Not a Morphology of) The Monsters of Education Technology
This talk was presented today at ETUG's Fall Workshop in Vancouver, BC. Special thanks to Jason Toal for DJing my talk. You can find the full slide deck here.Thank you very much for inviting me here to...
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Presidential Campaign Politics November 8 cannot come soon enough.Via Education Week): “Hillary Clinton Campaign Releases $500 Million Anti-Bullying Plan.”Via The Chronicle of Higher Education: “For...
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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release
This talk was delivered at Virginia Commonwealth University today as part of a seminar co-sponsored by the Departments of English and Sociology. The slides are also available here.Thank you very much...
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Presidential Campaign Politics Welp. It’s almost over.Via NPR: “What Trump And Clinton Have To Say About Education.”This seems dumb but you know, it makes for a headline: “ Higher ed split 50–50 on...
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Presidential Politics President-Elect Donald J. Trump.The President-Elect on the First Amendment: Just had a very open and successful presidential election. Now professional protesters, incited by the...
View ArticleEducation Technology Under Trump: A Syllabus
How do we understand Trump and ed-tech? How do we help students understand? How do we help all of us understand and respond?Back in June, The Chronicle of Higher Education published a mock syllabus for...
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President-Elect Trump It’s all so awful.“Trump and Chief Strategist Pick Bannon Disagreed on Foreign Student Policy,” says Inside Higher Ed. That is, Trump thought foreign students who graduate from...
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Presidential-Elect Donald J. Trump After much speculation– and meetings from those the media described as “potential candidates,” including Michelle Rhee (who visited the President-Elect with husband,...
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