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Is Education Entering the ‘Age of Alternatives’?

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Even popular culture, where robot teachers and wired students have been a staple of science fiction for decades, demonstrates our tendency to project current beliefs that schools should “leverage” (i.e., A review of the history of American schools and educational reform reveal other trends educational vision and pedagogy seem to be following.

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Going to School, Running a Startup: When Students Build Their Own Edtech

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Quizlet , the studying tool he built in 2005, is now one of the most widely used education apps, claiming more than 50 million active users in 130 countries who have created over 300 million study sets. Andrew Sutherland had no idea that the thing he programmed as a 15 year old would become a full-time profession. Fast forward 14 years.

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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

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Some call it “The Rise of the Machines” for the convergence of multiple technologies: artificial intelligence, big data, data science, robotics plus virtual and augmented reality. From 2015 to 2019, entrepreneurs created 11 times the number of education unicorns compared to 2005 to 2014.

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5 Activities to teach your students how to spot fake news

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These two words have trended in the last decade as a way of describing news and information that is false. To understand this trend, it is important to realize that there is no one description of what it is. Show students the MGM version then reveal the real version , which is a picture from 2005 of a lion receiving a CAT scan.

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Ed-Tech in a Time of Trump

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And the word “intelligence” is now used – oh so casually – to describe so-called “thinking machines”: algorithms, robots, AI. Since 2005, US universities have been the victim of almost 550 data breaches involving nearly 13 million known records.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” The Whiteboard Advisors’ latest “Education Insider” report ( PDF ) is on assessment trends, higher education, and the presidential campaigns. 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.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Nicholas Negroponte first started talking up his vision for a $100 laptop at the World Economic Forum in 2005. But the “spying” has continued. Chatbot Instructors.

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