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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It And then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s venture philanthropy firm and its commitment to fund “personalized learning.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.) He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.” But these outlandish claims of a powerful piece of learning software never matched what materialized. Common Core State Standards.

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