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Educational Crises and Ed-Tech: A History

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Bad form for a writer. "Broadcasts, in a sense," wrote Larry Wolters in the Chicago Daily Tribune , "assume all minds are of equal comprehension potentiality." Ford Foundation money was essential in making educational television more than just a "chic gimmick," historian Larry Cuban has argued.

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It’s almost as if technology writers never really think about imperialism and pay no attention to global news, only to PR. “ How Teachers Taught: Patterns of Instruction, 1890–2010 ” by historian Larry Cuban. Techcrunch says that “ EdTech is having a renaissance , powered by the emerging world.”

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How complex is learning?

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Writers such as Larry Cuban have been asking these questions for some time, and the chorus has been joined by many other skeptics including Susan Greenfield , Nicholas Carr and Jaron Lanier. AI education flipped classroom Games based learning Larry Cuban learning mobile learning MOOC Nicholas Carr pedagogy school Technology'

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Gizmodo : “Fired Google Memo Writer Took Part in Controversial, ‘Sexist’ Skit While at Harvard for Which Administration Issued Formal Apology.” Larry Cuban on personalized learning : part 1 and part 2. ” From the HR Department. Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Wall Street Journal : “ Media Startups Try a Lower-Cost Model: Unpaid Student Writers.” Stanford University’s Larry Cuban continues his analysis of behavioral management tool ClassDojo. ” Via The Verge : “ Google Glass gets its first update in nearly three years.” ” Phew!

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Harvard has a new president, Lawrence Bacow : “Another ‘White Male Economist Named Larry’,” as The Chronicle of Higher Education put it. ” This week, Rick Hess posted on his Ed Week blog “A Confession and a Question on Personalized Learning ” from Amplify CEO Larry Berger. Memos from HR.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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But Shark Tank isn’t just some awful Mark Burnett / Mark Cuban vision for the future of reality TV. More and more public libraries have started eliminating fines too because libraries, unlike Techcrunch writers, do care to alleviate inequality. But new technology hasn’t made it easy. The iPad would solve that,” he said.

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