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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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What Happens When Ed-Tech Forgets? Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations

Hack Education

" I like to cite, as an example, a New Yorker article from a few years ago that interviewed Anthony Levandoski, the Uber engineer sued by Google for stealing its self-driving car technology. A critic of the company, Linkletter posted links to unlisted YouTube videos — that is, publicly available information — on Twitter.

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Future Trends Forum #8, with Jim Groom: full recording, notes, and Storify

Bryan Alexander

I asked about how Jim’s company, Reclaim Hosting , is doing. For more background on containers Jim recommended Marc Levinson’s book The Box (2006). esSurge mentions their article on APIs and Indie Ed Tech. He criticized the allure of universal solutions and totalizing narratives (the LMS, the MOOC).

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Future Trends Forum #8, with Jim Groom: full recording, notes, and Storify

Bryan Alexander

I asked about how Jim’s company, Reclaim Hosting , is doing. For more background on containers Jim recommended Marc Levinson’s book The Box (2006). esSurge mentions their article on APIs and Indie Ed Tech. He criticized the allure of universal solutions and totalizing narratives (the LMS, the MOOC).

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

The stories that I write about the “Top Ed-Tech Trends” are the antithesis of most articles you’ll see about education technology that invoke “top” and “trends.” The very next day, Apple shares hit $97.80, an all-time high for the company. The quotation is from 2012.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

I’d hardly know where to begin in writing one, but I want to open this particular article – one that focuses, in part, on the whole “everyone should learn to code” craze – recognizing his great contribution to educational computing as well as his loss. Read Mindstorms. ” ). Only “1.86

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

I wrote “an explainer” of sorts on Thiel and his politics, and I listed the education companies that he’s invested in. Have any ed-tech companies, particularly those funded by Thiel or Zuckerberg or Y Combinator, spoken out about this? Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).