Last update: Sunday 8/20/17 @ 3:30 pm
This week's cover = Bannon is out!!! ... Other top stories = Monday's total eclipse of the sun ... Trump Administration demands data on million plus visitors to an anti-Trump site ... Trump disbands advisory councils after CEOs from tech and other sectors resignThe Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in tech (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant #EdTech innovations in the broader context of information technology ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 8/19/17
A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles
This week's TECH ==> Magazine
Calendar: #EdTech
Cover Story ... Bannon out +++++++++
- New York Times Video @nytvideo Steve Bannon was ousted from the White House today. Here’s a look at his controversial tenure. http://nyti.ms/2w9USBq ... DLL Editor's note -- This story also covered by Bloomberg, The Economist, New Yorker ... and Breitbart
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A. HBCUs ... Half-Dozen + 2
- APLU OAS @APLUOAS ILI TIME Challenge Student Competition All Majors: Moving NASA Technology in the Market Place. More at bit.ly/2i1CKE0 #HBCU #accessDirect message
- BDPA @BDPA Morehouse Launches Successful Summer STEM Program that Puts Atlanta Teens On Path to New Careers - buff.ly/2vjtzn2 | @AtlantaBDPA
- N.C. Central Univ. @NCCU Using drugs developed for 1 disease to treat another isn't new, but #NCCU's Dr. Xiaohe Yang may have an ideal match. bit.ly/2uW6eEq
- Diverse Issues @DiverseIssues Under Trump Administration HBCU White House post has remained leaderless for longer than it has under any previous ... https://t.co/gPntSee9pI
- Hampton University @_HamptonU Hampton University's Atmospheric Sciences Department Excited for Solar Eclipse news.hamptonu.edu/release/Hampto…
- Savannah State @savannahstate SSU's leading marine sciences gets a new lab and dock: savannahnow.com/news/2017-08-0… via @SavannahNow #SSU
- UMES LSAMP @UMES_LSAMP Dr. Deborah Sauder, presents “Taking the Toxicity Out of Chemistry” #LSAMP Bridge&Math Institute @USM_LSAMP #ThinkBigDiversity @UMESNews
- HBCU Lifestyle @HBCU_Lifestyle $2 million NSF grant to help TU prepare material scientists - Tuskegee News ift.tt/2w4dYcm
B. Ed Tech ... Half-Dozen + 3
- EDUCAUSELI @EDUCAUSELI The LearningOS creates an ecosystem for learning w/ data and external tools. er.educause.edu/articles/2017/… #NGDLE
- Roy L Beasley @RoyLBeasley Report questions whether elite colleges do enough to enroll low-income students via @insidehighered ... https://t.co/l6Y92xotSzView Tweet activity
- EdTech Higher Ed @EdTech_HigherEd Our best #HiEd blogs of 2017: Explore the #ClassroomLeaders you should be reading! tech.mg/MYqJkO
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- Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered Report shows improving finances at private colleges, even though some small institutions struggle ... https://t.co/D2aN86srLw
Analytics ...
- CCRSCenter @CCRSCenter Early warning indicators are evidence-based practice used for early identification of at-risk students goo.gl/JHCbMn #ESSA
Competency-Based Education (CBE) ...
- eCampus News @ecampusnews What's the key to competency based education? #highered #edtech #edchat ... https://t.co/inRKA0DZmn
MOOCs, online, blended, flipped ...
- EdTech Higher Ed @EdTech_HigherEd Infographic: Breaking down the demographics of online #highered students. ... https://t.co/oibh93s9aO
- EdTech Higher Ed @EdTech_HigherEd Infographic: #HigherEd leaders & students see the value of #OnlineClasses tech.mg/J8BfDB
- Education Dive @EducationDive When it comes to distance education, you have to consider policy and #edtech for success ow.ly/jcIy30etWfR via @chatlanis #highered ... https://t.co/pPbAEQfeRO
C. Info Tech ... 2 * Dozen
Top Story #1 ... Total eclipse +++++++++
Back to Top- Recode @Recode How to watch the once-in-a-lifetime eclipse without burning your eyes out: ... https://t.co/9nXYCSpV3b ... DLL Editor's note -- This story also covered by NY Times, NASA, Space.com, New Yorker
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- MIT Tech Review @techreview People make snap judgments based on how you speak, and some AI systems are now being taught to do the same. ... https://t.co/SdQ6Os86qw
- Roy L Beasley @RoyLBeasley Gene editing may make pigs into organ donors for people via @TheEconomist ... https://t.co/ZPCC5cloJs
- Roy L Beasley @RoyLBeasley SpaceX cargo mission demonstrates increasing research on space station via @WSJ ... https://t.co/jL1NSc5ACt
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Climate change, emissions, solar, etc ...
Climate change, emissions, solar, etc ...
- Fast Company @FastCompany France’s climate science grants want to make the planet great again–-and thousands have applied buff.ly/2w6CGsk
- MIT Tech Review @techreview China is living up to its role as the world's unlikely leader in tackling climate change. ... https://t.co/73lRe8otIR
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FinTech, block chain, bitcoin ...
FinTech, block chain, bitcoin ...
- VentureBeat @VentureBeat Blockstack announces $25 million fund to rebuild the internet for a #blockchain world: venturebeat.com/2017/08/16/blo…
Internet of Things, the Cloud ...
Self-driving and/or electric vehicles ...
- Bloomberg Technology @technology Is Dyson making a move from battery-powered vacuum cleaners to electric cars? bloom.bg/2uVfycx
Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, bots, robotics ...
- Fast Company @FastCompany To win the AI assistant wars, Apple is melding Siri with its other services buff.ly/2vNw53E
- VentureBeat @VentureBeat Brookings: Midwest and Southeast employ the most robots. #HeartlandTech venturebeat.com/2017/08/14/bro…
- WIRED @WIRED Meet Hexa, a six-legged insectile robot that's just as creepy as it sounds bit.ly/2waNcPg ... DLL Editor's note -- This story also covered by CNET, ZDNet
Cybersecurity, privacy, cybercrime, and free speech ...
Top Story #2 ... Voter data +++++++++
Back to Top- ZDNet @ZDNet Trump administration demands data on over a million visitors to an anti-Trump site zd.net/2w8Awt1 ... DLL Editor's note -- This story also covered by NY Times, LA Times, Gizmodo, Washington Post, Engadget
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- VentureBeat @VentureBeat Amid Silicon Valley crackdown on alt-right, Gab social network raises $1 million via crowdfunding. zhttps://venturebeat.com/2017/08/17/amid-silicon-valley-crackdown-on-alt-right-gab-social-network-raises-1-million-via-crowdfunding/ …
- ZDNet @ZDNet White House elevates status of US Cyber Command http://zd.net/2wiA4IG ... DLL Editor's note -- This story also covered by Gizmodo, CNET
- Engadget @engadget Voting machine supplier exposes 1.8 million voter records engt.co/2ibd9ZB ... DLL Editor's note -- This story also covered by Gizmodo
Science and technology policies ...
Top Story #3... Trump scraps councils +++++++++
Back to Top- CNBC @CNBC Trump scraps plan for infrastructure council after 2 other panels dissolve ... `https://t.co/l4LHVubzxi ... DLL Editor's note -- This story also covered by NY Times, Bloomberg, Vox, BBC, Gizmodo, Recode
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- Roy L Beasley @RoyLBeasley A Start-Up Suggests a Fix to the Health Care Morass via @nytimes ... https://t.co/63fJOYx896
- The Verge @verge Neo-Nazi site moves to dark web after GoDaddy and Google bans theverge.com/2017/8/15/1615… DLL Editor's note -- This story also covered by Washington Post, NY Times, Fast Company, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Bloomberg
- Engadget @engadget Facebook and Reddit ban hate groups in wake of Charlottesville engt.co/2uZObgV ... DLL Editor's note -- This story also covered by CNET, TechCrunch
Political context ...
- Wall Street Journal @WSJ With Bannon, it's now 14 departures so far in the Trump administration. An interactive graphic ... https://t.co/6X0j0sd1CZ
- The New York Times @nytimes The demonstrations were broadly peaceful, even as tensions coursed through protests that unfolded across cities ... https://t.co/HQrAth7fpg ... DLL Editor's note -- This story also covered by Vox, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal
D. Hackers ... Half-Dozen + 1
- Code/Interactive @weareci Vote for our #SXSW panels with @MissionEDC + @MissionCISD and @BullisSchool +@vidcode!
- BLUE1647 @BLUE1647 When your #Blue1647 summer classmates have a break, but you still want to code...
Diversity In Tech ... stats & strategies
- Fast Company @FastCompany .@Intel’s diversity report bumps up goal to reach full representation buff.ly/2vFYusi DLL Editor's note -- This story also covered by Black Enterprise, Business Insider, Engadget, CNET, Fortune, VentureBeat
- Fast Company @FastCompany This job training program wants to add diversity to Silicon Valley–on the business side buff.ly/2vFSJe7
- MIT Tech Review @techreview "Job ads [in China] sometimes say only men need apply." ... https://t.co/OOLKXW7BSb
Code & Coders
- TNW @TheNextWeb Android O will be revealed during Monday's solar eclipse - and it's probably Oreo http://tnw.me/ztm7Zpj ... DLL Editor's note -- This story also covered by ZDNet, ExtremeTech
- ZDNet @ZDNet Oracle considers moving Java EE to an open source foundation zd.net/2fPHdsV by @stephcondoncbs
E. Views -- Comments and Opinions ... Dozen + 2
- Roy L Beasley @RoyLBeasley Paper looks at gender norms' role in disparities in majors via @insidehighered ... https://t.co/ntDQoPPJWz
- Mashable Tech @mashabletech We're at a crossroads for free speech online, and it could change the internet as we know it: http://on.mash.to/2w9C2dM
- Roy L Beasley @RoyLBeasley Banning neo-Nazis online may be slippery slope, tech group warns Silicon Valley via @WashingtonPost ... https://t.co/iH4WstpGUK
- The New Yorker @NewYorker Donald Trump's crisis of legitimacy. ... https://t.co/bxqXNrSdST
- Vox @voxdotcom "[Trump] seems happy ... to be both operationally & ideologically marginalized inside his own administration." ... https://t.co/heFAIiozua
- Roy L Beasley @RoyLBeasley Donald Trump has no grasp of what it means to be president via @TheEconomist ... https://t.co/duqfPCIP1Q
- Wall Street Journal @WSJ North Korea’s climbdown from its threat to attack Guam was a product of textbook brinkmanship from Pyongyang ... https://t.co/vnUDTFD2Di
- WIRED @WIRED The implications of Verizon taking this stand are huge ... https://t.co/91t8KQJGrM
Long form ... good reads ... :-)
- MIT Tech Review @techreview The Age of Artificial Intelligence: Machine Learning http://trib.al/CnQ3B71 (via @bbvaOpenMind) ... DLL Editor's note: Part 1 of this essay is HERE
- Vox @voxdotcom If you haven't seen it, Vice’s documentary on Charlottesville is really worth watching ... https://t.co/PUBxK4kEpJ
- Fast Company @FastCompany Welcome to the third nuclear era: Trump and the point of no return buff.ly/2wKh56G
- Bloomberg Technology @technology China's plan for AI world domination isn't looking so crazy after all bloom.bg/2uMotgi
- Vox @voxdotcom Most Confederate monuments went up not immediately after the Civil War, but as Southerners put Jim Crow in place ... https://t.co/MWES7hY8Bx
F. Chuckles, Shame, and/or Fake News ... Dozen + 5
- The Onion @TheOnion ‘My Work Here Is Done,’ Smiles Contented Bannon Before Bursting Into Millions Of Spores http://trib.al/Cpz33gJ
- The Onion @TheOnion "Mr. Bannon’s unbroken three-hour shriek was given in total confidence and was in no way intended for publication." ... https://t.co/1yegkRytZ9 ... DLL Editor's note -- Kuttner's interview
- LT Wynn @Pubhistorian Trump condemned racism as "evil." Here are 16 times he embraced it huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-ra… via @HuffPostPol ... https://t.co/SxXM4zBWMZ
- Washington Post @washingtonpost After Charlottesville, Trump retweets — then deletes — image of train running over CNN reporter ... https://t.co/sD560iKCdg
- ClickHole @ClickHole Replying to @ClickHole "Our Republican policies will be more effective when it comes to tranquilly maintaining white hegemony in America." ... https://t.co/OnZd6Xw3lK
- Bloomberg @business The president of the United States can't even bring himself to condemn Nazis sincerely. Get used to it. bloom.bg/2wdkJIk ... DLL Editor's note -- President Trump's remarks also covered by Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, NY Times, Washington Post
- The Onion @TheOnion Trump Blasts Critics Who Judge Neo-Nazi Groups By Most Extreme Members trib.al/AF1MZPt
- Wall Street Journal @WSJ Trump on Charlottesville: teleprompter vs. unscripted ... http://ow.ly/VlcB30ernaBAssign To
- The Onion @TheOnion Trump Warns Removing Confederate Statues Could Be Slippery Slope To Eliminating Racism Entirely trib.al/FC1WD6e
- David Duke @DrDavidDuke Thank you President Trump for your honesty & courage to tell the truth about #Charlottesville & condemn the leftist terrorists in BLM/Antifa
- Greg Carr @AfricanaCarr Donald Trump is presenting everyone in the United States with the clearest chance in two generations to decide where they stand.
@POTUS in his own words ... #FakePresident "45" until #2020 or #25... :-(
- Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump I want to thank Steve Bannon for his service. He came to the campaign during my run against Crooked Hillary Clinton - it was great! Thanks S
- Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Steve Bannon will be a tough and smart new voice at @BreitbartNews...maybe even better than ever before. Fake News needs the competition!
- Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments. You.....Assign To
- Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump ...can't change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson - who's next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish! Also...
- Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump ...the beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replaced!
- Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump The public is learning (even more so) how dishonest the Fake News is. They totally misrepresent what I say about hate, bigotry etc. Shame!
- Video of President Trump's comments on Charlottesville at his Press Conference on Tuesday 8/15/17 ==> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGKbFA7HW-U
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