Remove 2009 Remove Adaptive Learning Remove Khan Academy Remove Mobility
article thumbnail

The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.) Indeed, young people prefer learning from YouTube than from textbooks — according, ironically, to Pearson. He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.”

Pearson 145