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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2013, 3D printer manufacturer MakerBot launched its MakerBot Academy with a goal “to put a MakerBot Desktop 3D Printer in every school in America.” You can learn anything online, Siegler argued. Ed-Tech Startup Accelerators.

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The Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology

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Social Media, Campus Activism, and Free Speech. Social Justice. The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2013. Learning to Code. Education Data and Learning Analytics. Social Media: Adoption and Crackdown. Standardized Testing. “The Employability Narrative” Credits and Credentialing.

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The Weaponization of Education Data

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A hacked school Twitter account in Florida. I delete all my old social media now on a regular and ongoing basis. This software would track and analyze the social media and digital activity of visa holders in order to identify those who might be “high risk.” They monitor social media.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). That’s Rohit Agarwal who headed the K–12 education division after his math company TenMarks was acquired by Amazon in 2013.