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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. ” Those “countless needs and niches” can be met thanks to all the data generation and data collection that happens on them.

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

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This year, the Horizon Report’s Higher Education Edition does include graphics with some historical data, demonstrating how some technologies and topics appear and reappear and how some simply disappear altogether from the horizon. “the Internet of Things”) have been on the horizon since 2009. Click for full-size.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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