Remove 2009 Remove Books Remove Chromebook Remove Digital Learning
article thumbnail

What Happened to the ‘$100 Laptop’?

Edsurge

EdSurge recently connected with Ames to talk about the book and about her theory about the dangers of what she calls “charismatic technology.” —Morgan Ames There are two very big projects, one in Uruguay and one in Peru, which account for almost three- quarters of those laptops out there in the world. What does that mean?

Laptops 108
article thumbnail

Organizing the Edtech Toolbox

edWeb.net

During the edWebinar, “ Transform Learning: Track Results for Chromebooks, Google Suite, and Every Application,” presenters Kyle Berger, Chief Technology Officer at Grapevine-Colleyville ISD, TX, and Matthew X. More important, are the tools of equal quality? Joseph, Ed.D., Kyle is known as a transformer of educational technology.

EdTech 41
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. platforms are digital infrastructures that enable two or more groups to interact. ” In reviewing Srnicek’s book in March, New York Times media journalist John Hermann wrote , Platforms are, in a sense, capitalism distilled to its essence.

article thumbnail

The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The key word in that headline isn’t “digital”; it’s “force.” The story examined a proposed practice: “Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).” They haven’t.). But new technology hasn’t made it easy.

Pearson 145