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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. million devices shipped to primary and secondary schools in the US last year – that’s up from 50% in 2015. A computing platform is the stage on which computer programs can run. They’re amazing.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

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.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot. Google’s Alphabet Inc.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised.

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