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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. Microsoft : “Microsoft launches Intune for Education to counter Google’s Chromebooks in schools,” Techcrunch reported in January. “Microsoft is really scared of Chromebooks in businesses and schools,” The Verge reported in June.

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ProfHacker 2015 Holiday Gift Guide

ProfHacker

And if for some reason you need more ideas than what’s here—or if you’re just feeling nostalgic, as is befitting this time of year—take a look at our lists from 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , and 2009. Wow, we’ve been at this for a long time! Board Games.

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The age of disintegrated computing and thoughts on education

Bryan Alexander

A swarm of mobile devices **in 2009**. Laptops keep mutating into new forms, extra-light, Chromebook, tablet hybrid, and so on. Not to mention robots, which we can’t carry, but are portable on their own terms. Handheld game machines predate those.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

Teachers project lesson plans onto interactive screens, and little hands reach for black Chromebook laptops, which are stacked like cafeteria trays in a large box called a Chromecart. The ratio of children to Chromebooks, in grades three through five, is one to one. Yet, inside Isaac Paine, tech abounds. The George W.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot,” The Wall Street Journal gushed in 2016 , documenting an experiment undertaken at Georgia Tech in which a chatbot called “Jill Watson” answered questions in a course’s online forum. In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.)

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