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What Schools Can Learn About Communication From the Vatican’s Former Social Media Chief

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Two years later, Pope Benedict XVI made a Twitter account, which today claims nearly 18 million followers. When I arrived in the Vatican around 2007-2008, everything was beginning to happen with digital communications. Monsignor Tighe is now the Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Culture in the Vatican. I was lucky.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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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 Windows devices – again, that’s laptops and tablets – remained at about 22%.

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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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