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What's on the Horizon (Still, Again, Always) for Ed-Tech

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The topic names have been modified “for consistency,” the report’s authors say (although I’m a little unclear about some of these choices – how are “mobile learning,” “tablet computing,” and “bring your own device” separate technological developments? Mobile Learning.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It million devices shipped to primary and secondary schools in the US last year – that’s up from 50% in 2015.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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With all the charges of fraud and deceptive marketing levied against post-secondary institutions this decade — from ITT to coding bootcamps, from Trump University to the Draper University of Heroes — we might ask if, indeed, this is the way it works now. In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.)

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