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The Rough Beasts of Ed-Tech

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Indeed I’ve thought recently that for every silly news story we see that insists some new product is “like Uber but for education” or “like Facebook but for education,” one could easily substitute “like Sea Monkeys but for education.” What are MOOCs, for example? What are we promising?

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Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking

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.” This was what the mother of a nineteen-year-old killed by a bomb in Kirkuk said on an HBO documentary quoted by Bob Herbert in The New York Times on the morning of November 12, 2004. Or MOOCs even. “But I thought that if, as long as I didn’t let him in, he couldn’t tell me. So who do you believe? Hype wanes.