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MinecraftEdu Creators Struggle to Find a Second Hit

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billion in 2014, it bought out TeacherGaming’s rights and created its own version two years later. The company creates a curriculum and lesson plans around each game and offers learning analytics, showing how games are being used. After Microsoft acquired Minecraft for $2.5 That marked a momentous turning point for the company.

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The Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology

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The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014. The Common Core State Standards. Learning to Code. Education Data and Learning Analytics. Social Media, Campus Activism, and Free Speech. Indie Ed-Tech. The Business of Ed-Tech. The Business of Ed-tech. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Michael Feldstein argued that the “meaninglessness” of Purdue’s claims were important for the ed-tech community to grapple with, in no small part because many other learning analytics systems had been modeled on the Course Signals work.

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Top Ed-Tech Trends: A Review

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The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014. The Common Core State Standards. Learning to Code. Education Data and Learning Analytics. Social Media, Campus Activism, and Free Speech. Indie Ed-Tech. The Business of Ed-Tech. The Business of Ed-tech. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Chalkbeat : “They rejected multi-state Common Core exams. ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. Via the AP : “The number of 3- and 4-year-olds in state-funded classrooms rose slightly during the 2014–15 school year to almost 1.4 – this time in science.