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Ed Tech News, a New Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The bill will be a massive revisions to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Valve , the company behind the video game hit Portal, is working on an educational game. If you haven''t played Portal, you might shrug this off as yet another video game company trying to capitalize on the gaming-in-education craze.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. Why are video-taped lectures so “revolutionary” if lectures themselves are supposedly not? (As

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

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 “As LinkedIn’s Video Library Grows, Company Says It Has No Plans to Compete With Colleges,” Edsurge reported in June.