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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. “Microsoft is really scared of Chromebooks in businesses and schools,” The Verge reported in June.

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Global Education Conference 2017 #globaled17

The CoolCatTeacher

Lucy Gray and Steve Hargadon on episode 190 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Our handle for Twitter is @globaledcon. Twitter: @elemenous. Go to globaleducationconference.com to join in. Steve: Lucy’s our social media guru… Lucy: Yes there is.

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Learning technology teacher development blog: Online Video: For Language Development

Nik Peachey

Microsoft's free Learning Content Development Syst. ► 2007. (28). Keep up with me on Twitter. Posted by Nik Peachey. Labels: scripts , social network , video , vocabulary. 0 comments: Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Sending Bubble Joy to your EFL / ESL Students. activities.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

Microsoft and Apple are two. Betsy DeVos’s brother, Erik Prince, is the founder of the private military company Blackwater, infamous for its human rights violations, including the murder of 17 Iraqi civilians in 2007 by its employees. …There are companies that are firmly planted in the computing sector.