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The New York TimesD&S fellow Natasha Singer on the use of virtual-reality in education, and Google's virtual field trip system for schools, Expeditions. The idea of virtual field trips is not new. Some teachers have for years used Microsoft... Read on The New York TimesSeptember 2015 -
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The New York TimesD&S fellow Natasha Singer details Clever, a software service — free for schools — that enables schools to send student information to web and mobile apps at the click of a button. Clever is clearly benefiting from the incr... Read on The New York TimesSeptember 2015 -
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Vice“Just as the software and hardware of the internet has been militarized by the imperatives of a mostly secret 'cyberwar,' so too are online social spaces being weaponized in new and mostly hidden ways.” D&S researcher Tim Hw... Read on ViceSeptember 2015 -
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The New York TimesD&S fellow Natasha Singer explores how the sharing economy, and sites like TeachersPayTeachers.com, are benefitting teachers willing to share the lessons they have created. At a time when many politicians, technology execu... Read on The New York TimesSeptember 2015 -
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The New York TimesIncoming D&S fellow Natasha Singer reports for the New York Times on the glut of recently proposed legislation aimed at restricting the collection and use of student data. Read on The New York TimesAugust 2015 -
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The Atlantic“So what brings you to Atlanta?” the man at the Alamo rental-car desk asked my friend Sam. We responded perhaps more eagerly than necessary. “You know those markings you’ll see on the sidewalk that tell you where a gas main ... Read on The AtlanticAugust 2015 -
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Weekly Wonk New AmericaIn this piece for Weekly Wonk, New America's digital magazine, D&S advisor Charlton McIlwain explores the provenance and prospects of the contemporary civil rights "movement network": What’s new about the present movement ... Read on Weekly Wonk New AmericaAugust 2015 -
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Pacific StandardD&S fellow Karen Levy published an essay on measurement in Pacific Standard's The Future of Work and Workers series: As data analytics and monitoring technologies come to be used in more and more workplaces, we must be att... Read on Pacific StandardAugust 2015 -
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QuartzData & Society's Intelligence and Autonomy initiative commissioned authors to envision future scenarios for intelligent systems in four domains: medicine, labor, urban design, and warfare. The future scenario around labo... Read on QuartzJuly 2015 -
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Fast CompanyExcerpt: "With all due respect to the boldface AI worriers, do we need to invent a boogeyman from the future when we’ve got the present to worry about? Is tomorrow’s machine enslavement so much more terrifying than today’s vast... Read on Fast CompanyJune 2015