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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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It’s not even an LMS, quite frankly – something Edmodo tried to use as a selling point for a little while. Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. The LMS giant Blackboard celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. (I If so, what are they?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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And like so many products on this list, 3D printing was hailed as a revolution in education, and schools were encouraged to reorient libraries and shop classes towards “maker spaces” which would give students opportunities to print their plastic designs. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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How a Flipped Syllabus, Twitter and YouTube Made This Professor Teacher of the Year

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We also use a lot of maps from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection. And there are a variety of alternative assignments, like the Twitter World Leader assignment. Tell us about the Twitter World Leaders. Boyer's Twitter World Leader Assignment; full size image here. See below for details on Boyer’s assignments.)

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