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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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”) It was certainly the outcome that investors were hoping for Edmodo , which raised $25 million in 2012, boasting that it had 15 million users. Remember Edmodo? Edmodo was one of the early stars of the most recent resurgence in ed-tech startup founding and funding (circa 2008 onward, that is).

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. As we move forward with new technologies in learning analytics, how and who will be evaluating the claims that people put forward?”.

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The Weaponization of Education Data

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77 million users accounts stolen from Edmodo. There were other high profile incidents as well: the refusal, for example, to give visas to the all-girls robotics team from Afghanistan. A file configuration error at Schoolzilla that exposed the data of some 1.3 million students. A ransomware attack at a school system in Maine.

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