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Hack Education Weekly News

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“Start-up firm Spires plans rapid expansion across UK universities, and says it could help social mobility – but others see private tutoring as harming access.” ” “Live instruction” is not teachers; it is content delivery via a mobile device. PowerSchool has acquired TIENET for an undisclosed sum.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Nicholas Negroponte first started talking up his vision for a $100 laptop at the World Economic Forum in 2005. There was slightly more buzz when Negroponte pitched the idea again at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis in 2005. Because we have five orders of magnitude more data about you than Google has.

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