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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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I was inspired, I think, to select that topic because talk of “platforms” was incredibly popular in Silicon Valley – it had been for a while – as companies strove to become “the next Facebook.” I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. Think Facebook.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. It was an elaborate scam, dating back to 2012, but one that gave out many online signals that the school was “real.”

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