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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. For the past ten years, every ten months or so, someone would pen an op-ed claiming it was time to ban laptops in the classroom. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. And on and on and on.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. ” “ One-to-One Laptop Initiatives Boost Student Scores, Researchers Find” says Education Week. The map draws on only 100,000 articles from 180 journals and only dates back to 2005 because that is the grand sum of education technology research.