Last update: Thursday 1/1/15 @ 1:25 pm
This year's cover = photo from tweet about Protests against police killing unarmed black males
Other top stories ==> No Diversity in Silicon Valley ... Closing the Digital Divide with code ... and Massive IT security breaches
This special end-of-year edition of Tech Dozens contains tweets that link to the Digital Learning Lab's favorite news items for the year 2014 ... Links to previous editions of the Dozens can be found ==> Back issues.
Cover Story -- Protests against police killing black males +++
DLL-Editor's Note -- During the last five months of 2014, protests against the unprovoked executions of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and too many other unarmed black males became an ongoing national grass roots movement. But the records should note that these protests began in August 2014 at Howard University, an HBCU, where a photo of HU students' "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" demonstration quickly went viral. (The TECH 2014 cover is the Howard photo.)
#HBCU #HU Howard University students describe the making of their hands up solidarity v... http://binged.it/1yTSsgX http://bit.ly/17nRYEV ... This story was also covered by the Washington Post, USA Today, Essence, Huffington Post, Fast Company, Washingtonian, NY Times
Students from @Morehouse and @SpelmanCollege join Michael Brown protest in downtown Atlanta for 7pm protest,
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Twitter made a map of all geotagged tweets about #Ferguson, showing how the news spread http://on.rt.com/x4m32q
Ferguson Decision Stirs Familiar Feelings of Frustration, Anger on Campuses - Higher Education http://diverseeducation.com/article/68111/ via @twitterapi ... DLL Editor's Note -- Tweets about demonstrations at HBCUs included, among others ==> Morgan State University, Clark Atlanta University, Central State University, Bowie State University, Morris College, Howard University, Spelman College, Morehouse College, Clark Atlanta, Bowie State University, Prairie View University, Xavier University, Hampton University
Students Nationwide Hold ‘Die Ins’ for Justice - Higher Education http://diverseeducation.com/article/68251/ via @twitterapi
Powerful image of #EricGarner protesters shutting down I-80 in Berkeley. http://mashable.com/2014/12/09/garner-berkeley-interstate-80/?utm_cid=hp-hh-pri … DLL Editor's Note -- This story also covered by USA Today
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Our first PhDs in nanoengineering are being hooded. Congrats and #AggiePride #NCATGrad
TMCF, University of Phoenix Announce New Blended Learning Partnership - Higher Education http://diverseeducation.com/article/67948/
#FAMU has 33 #patents and #trademarks issued to date and received the 2013 #APLU Innovation Award. Go @FAMU_1887, Go @CAFSNEWS
David Blackwell to Be Awarded the National Science Medal http://www.jbhe.com/?p=45296 ... DLL Editor's Note -- This is a posthumous award for Dr. Blackwell whose many achievements included a longtime chairmanship of the Dept. of Mathematics at Howard University
Oakwood University Professor Creates First HBCU-Developed MOOC - Higher Education http://diverseeducation.com/article/66933/ via @twitterapi
... DLL Editor's Note -- Oakwood University's Dr. Keith Augustus Burton developed this course within the Center for Excellence in Distance Learning (CEDL). The course is described on Oakwood's Website and is listed in the catalog of the Canvas Network. The CEDL, a consortium of HBCUs located at Wiley College, currently has three members: Wiley College, Oakwood University, Florida Memorial College, Jarvis Christian College, and Talladega College plus Lumen Learning, the CEDL's corporate partner. The CEDL's MOOC is a gratifying demonstration of the strategic advantages of "Virtual HBCUs" working with corporate partners that I have advocated for the last two years, most recently in the last paragraphs of a note on this blog "Academic Innovators as Community Organizers -- Part 2" ... This story also covered by Lumen Learning and Inside Higher Ed
HU Proton Therapy Institute treats 1,000th patient - http://wavy.com/2014/09/19/hu-proton-therapy-institute-treats-1000th-patient/
Chemist Percy Julian '20 "Changed the World", NotesNewspaper - DePauw University http://www.depauw.edu/news-media/latest-news/details/31179/ … DLL Editor's Note -- Dr. Julian held brief appointments as a member of Howard University's faculty
Norman Francis Stepping Down in 2015 as @XULAindex Xavier University President - #HigherEd http://diverseeducation.com/article/66721/ ... DLL Editor's Notes -- Given Xavier's preeminence in STEM among HBCUs (See the DLL's report "HBCUs -- The Best Producers of Black Graduates in STEM"), the retirement of its longtime president is a major STEM development within the HBCU community... This story was also covered by JBHE, HBCU Digest, HBCU Digest again (tributes from other HBCU presidents), and Inside Higher Ed
Photo: Maya Angelou receiving an honorary degree from @HowardU in 1985. pic.twitter.com/qoCuqjed5B ... DLL Editor's Note -- Dr. Anjelou's passing was also noted by HBCU News, NY Times, Diverse, Huffington Post, Good Morning America
DEVELOPING AFRICAN AMERICANS IN MATHEMATICS by Dr. Abdulalim Shabazz http://fb.me/2rOrPeqyY
DLL Editor's note: In this 1991 interview Dr. Shabazz provided a comprehensive, but succinct summary of his goals and achievements as a teacher and mentor of mathematics for black students. Recently the HBCU community mourned the passing of Dr. Maya Anjelou with extensive memorials, as it should have because she was a master teacher of the humanities who inspired so many of us. But why was the passing of Dr. Shabazz, a master teacher of the most fundamental component of STEM, given so little notice ???????
Competency-Based Programs
Kentucky's new Commonwealth College: http://wcetblog.wordpress.com/2014/12/17/kentuckys-commonwealth-college/ … Competency-based, Degree-completion, collaborative #highered #CBE
Competency-based education arrives at three major public
institutions @insidehighered http://shar.es/10oj1J
via @sharethis
How can accreditors ensure the quality of competency-based
degree programs without stifling innovation? https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/09/10/accreditors-role-expansion-competency-based-education …
Digital Learning Lab @DLLOnline · Jul 23
Competency-based education gets a boost from the Education Department@insidehighered http://shar.es/LnrIv ... DLL Editor's Note -- This story was also coveredby the Chronicle of Higher Ed
MOOCs
Universities Rethinking Their Use of Massive Online Courses http://nyti.ms/1F8Fulo
Understanding the value of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) http://wp.me/p1re2-6sWa
Campus Technology @Campus_Tech · May 291.9 million people around the world have registered for one or more of Stanford's MOOCs. http://ow.ly/xoIVT
@insidehighered http://shar.es/Phjph
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National effort to simplify regulations for distance education providers adds 18 members in less than a year: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/12/18/state-authorization-reciprocity-effort-passes-tipping-point-supporters-say …
#hbcu#hbcus#edtech ==> http://sloanconsortium.org/publications/survey/grade-change-2013 …
U.S. releases data on distance education enrollments@insidehighered http://shar.es/VPaG8
No diversity in Silicon Valley ++++++++
The Reverend Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition has been pressing Silicon Valley to disclose its staff diversity data for more than a decade. This year the Valley finally responded, starting with Google in May 2014.
Google's report was followed by diversity reports from a Who's Who from the Valley and from points north. These reports were given intensive coverage by the business and technical media, but the coverage by TechCrunch was the most extensive; VentureBeat placed second. Therefore each of the following bullets contains two links: the first is usually to a Techcrunch article about a company's diversity report; the second to the company's report itself.
Silicon Valley wasn't always a total bro-fest. Here's how tech's gender gap got worse http://wrd.cm/1pj5O7p
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FBI: North Korean government was responsible for Sony hack. http:venturebeat.com/2014/12/19/fbi-says-north-korea-is-responsible-for-the-sony-pictures-cyberattack/ … ... DLL Editor's note -- This story also covered by CNET, TechCrunch ... TechCrunch also reported North Korean denial of responsibility
Staples hack may have compromised 1 million-plus payment cards @zachminers http://www.computerworld.com/article/2861856/staples-says-hack-may-have-compromised-1-million-plus-payment-cards.html … DLL Editor's Note -- This story also covered by Bloomberg
Symantec Discovers ‘Regin’ Spy Code Lurking on Computer Networks http://nyti.ms/1yN3NR5 ... DLL Editor's Note -- This story also covered by CNET
Kmart hacked, customers' card numbers exposed @zachminers http://www.computerworld.com/article/2824758/kmart-hacked-customers-card-numbers-exposed.html … DLL Editor's Note -- This story also covered by TechCrunch
JPMorgan Chase says breach affected 83M customers @Jeremy_Kirk http://www.computerworld.com/article/2691246/jpmorgan-chase-says-breach-affected-83m-customers.html … DLL Editor's Note -- This story also covered by the NY Times, CNet, Bloomberg Tech
Shellshock draws hacker attacks and sparks race to patch the bug. http://bloom.bg/1otsY5p ... DLL Editor's Note -- This story also covered by Computerworld, NY Times
Home Depot confirms the scale of the breach. As many as 56 million payment cards were potentially exposed http://tcrn.ch/1o6S8GN ... DLL Editor's Note -- This story also covered by NY Times, Computerworld
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The 25 Hottest Skills That Got People Hired in 2014 http://blog.linkedin.com/2014/12/17/the-25-hottest-skills-that-got-people-hired-in-2014/ … via @LinkedIn ... DLL Editor's Note -- Linkedin's findings were discussed by Black Enterprise, VentureBeat, ZDNet ... NetworkWorld posted predictions for 2015
Google quadruples Nobel Prize in Computing to $1M http://ow.ly/Eearg @theofficialacm ... DLL Editor's Note -- This story also covered by the NY Times, ACM press release
Welcome to the comet: The Rosetta mission makes space history http://cnet.co/1v3Vqm0 ... DLL Editor's Note -- This story also covered by TechCrunch, Computerworld, Wired
Microsoft ...
Here's everything Microsoft announced today for its Office suite: http://venturebeat.com/2014/11/06/microsoft-makes-office-mobile-editing-free-launches-separate-iphone-apps-and-preview-for-android-tablets/ … DLL Editor's Note -- This story about Microsoft taking Office and Explorer beyond Windows was also covered by NY Times, TechCrunch, CNET, Networkworld, Bloomberg
Microsoft open sources .NET, saying it will run on Linux and Mac http://wrd.cm/1zjMyHM ... DLL Editor's Note -- This story also covered by TechCrunch, CNET, VentureBeat, Bloomberg Tech
Apple ...
Here's Apple Pay in action http://tcrn.ch/1qfh0S6 ... DLL Editor's Note -- Apple Pay also covered by Bloomberg, NY Times
VentureBeat @VentureBeat Inside the development of the Swift language, Apple's passion project 4 years in the making http://bit.ly/1nP8I2V pic.twitter.com/sOJydaCQqG ... DLL Editor's Note -- This story also covered by ZDNet, InfoWorld, TechCrunch
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Closing the Digital Divide with code +++++++
The DLL's calendar listed (most of) Black America's most prominent civic, educational, and corporate/entreprenurial code-related events in 2014 ... Readers should take special note of the extensive activities of the organizations identified as "exemplars" in the Hackers note on the home page of this blog:
• Black Founders, Black Girls Code, Black Tech Miami, Blue 1647, Code Fever Miami, Code for Atlanta, CODE2040, CodeNow, Coding While Black, DiversiTech, Goodie Hack, Hack the Hood, NewMe Accelerator, Qeyno Labs, and #YesWeCode
Many of their events that were Storyfied by the DLL and by others. Links to these and to other useful curations can be found on the Archives page. However the following events were the DLL's favorites:
• Black Girls Code -- "Love is Respect" hackathon in Brooklyn/Oakland (June 2014)
• Black Girls Code -- "Mobile App Development Workshop (July 2014)
• #YesWeCode/Qeyno Labs -- "Essence Fest" hackathon in New Orleans (July 2014)
• @PlatformOrg -- Summit Conference at Morehouse College (October 2014)
• Silicon Harlem -- 2014 Technology Conference (October 2014)
• #YesWeCode/Qeyno Labs -- "My Brothers Keeper" hackathon (November 2014)
• UNCF/APLU -- HBCU Summit in Silicon Valley (November 2014) -- Note that the hackathon at Facebook was just one of this comprehensive conference's many components
• @ThePhatStartUp -- #Tech808 conference (November 2014)
• Black Enterprise -- "Corner Office" Twitter Chat with Anie Akpe (September 2014)
• NewMe Accelerator -- Series of "Founder Chats"
• #YesWeCode -- Series of Twitter chats hosted by Uchechi Kalu
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"Hour of Code" in Computer Science Education Week ... #hbcus #hbcu #edtech #hackathon ==> http://hbcu-levers.blogspot.com/2014/12/hour-of-code-in-computer-science.html … ... DLL Editor's Note -- This story also covered by TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Google
.@USATODAY Profile - The Kapors: A tech power couple to the powerless #diversityintech http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/12/12/mitch-and-freada-kapor-focus-on-improving-tech-company-diversity/20169087/ …
@NewMEAccel Twitter Chat with Jewel Burks #TechDiva -- @6Gems @blackgirlscode @VolunteerBGCNY ==> http://hbcu-levers.blogspot.com/2014/12/dll-storify-of-newme-accelerators.html …… ... DLL Editor's Note -- Jewel Burks is a bona fide Tech Diva who is also an alum of Howard University's Marketing program ... Her comments are so focused, they read more like an elevator pitch than a chat. Readers are therefore advised to follow the links in the intro to the Storify (a) to the extensive TechCrunch article that describes her team's winning presentation at Disrupt SF 2014, and (b) to the 23 minute on-site video interviews conducted by Small Empires ... :-)
1st review of new #appcelerator alloy & cloud services book on cross-platform #mobiledev http://bit.ly/10vixsc ... DLL Editor's Note -- The publication of this book by a major publishing house certifies Aaron Saunders' status as a tech's tech, a guru who teaches other techs how to use the most productive tools of their trade. But Mr. Saunders is also a black activist who is deeply committed to helping black youngsters learn how to code their way across the Digital Divide. His dual status makes him one of Black America's most valuable assets.
Alum Kimberly Bryant is changing the face of high-tech with Black Girls Code @blackgirlscode http://news.vanderbilt.edu/vanderbiltmagazine/kimberly-bryant-is-changing-the-face-of-high-tech-with-black-girls-code …
Urban Onshoring: The movement to bring tech jobs back to America http://wrd.cm/1xXwhXB ... DLL Editor's Note -- The linked story describes creative efforts to bring high tech employment opportunities to the South Bronx
It's more than learning to code. Our founder @hadip's TEDx talk on why computer science is for everybody: http://youtu.be/FpMNs7H24X0
"The kids in #SiliconValley wear hoodies too, but they don't get shot." - @vanjones68 Powerful @PlatformOrg . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss5QLKq1X0s …
Check out the OpEd in @VentureBeat by our founder @RyanSeas about the #LearnToCode movement & its opportunity in 2015 http://bit.ly/1yQUcvZ
Protests ...
Have a care, those of us called upon to analyze and/or comment on this moment in US history. not flinch or eat your heart. #Ferguson
Not surprised at all. Get Mad. And turn that anger into productive action. #FergusonDecision
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