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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Affluent students get to digital tools for creative exploration; poor students get to use theirs for test prep. Purdue boasted that Course Signals increased retention by 21%, making it an incredibly effective tool. Nicholas Negroponte first started talking up his vision for a $100 laptop at the World Economic Forum in 2005.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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The funding will go towards building its ( ethically questionable ) “ Concierge ” tool in which Edsurge acts as a middle-man helping schools identify products to buy and takes a cut of the contract action. ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. It's religion.