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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

Since then, the online education, education technology and workforce innovation industry has gone through three increasingly larger “waves” which I described in that previous article , and concerns that our industry was “ jumping the shark ” in 2017 have been proven premature. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012.

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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. "The only thing that matters is the future," Levandoski told the magazine. Unfathomable. Impenetrable. Incomprehensible. Inexplicable.

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

Bryan Alexander

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). He also argued that metaphors of technology are the poetry of our moment.

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

Bryan Alexander

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). He also argued that metaphors of technology are the poetry of our moment.

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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.” And look at the predictions about mobile computing: 2006 – the phones in their pockets. 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

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ XuetangX : A Look at China’s First and Biggest MOOC Platform.” This is an old article on Medium but it’s worth reposting in light of this story: “The Dirty Little Secrets About The Worst Coding Bootcamps Out There.