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What Problems Has Edtech Solved, and What New Ones Did It Create?

Edsurge

Open digital badges. When its creator, Mojang, was sold to Microsoft in 2014 , educators had every right to be freaked out that a homegrown educational modification might die. What technology never lived up to expectations or the hype? Certain interoperability efforts.

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Learning Revolution - Week's Free Events - May Is Ed Tech Month - Geo-Educators - Natural Math - Oxygen Masks and You

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Thursday, April 10th in Milfold, MA CoSN - 2014 Massachusetts CTO Clinic , Join the Massachusetts Educational Technology Administrators Association (METAA) for their 5th annual CTO Clinic. Library 2.014 , October 8th + 9th, 2014 Upcoming deadlines: Presentation proposals will be accepted between now and October 1st for Library 2.014.

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What Education Technology Could Look Like Over the Next Five Years

MindShift

Many school leaders believe that by using technology and adaptive software to allow students to move at different paces, they are offering “personalized learning.” A 2014 Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) survey found that 81 percent of surveyed schools either had a BYOD policy or planned to implement one.

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How Do You Patent an Edtech Idea, Anyway?

Edsurge

When we finished a working prototype in 2014, we could tell it was something unique. Our lawyer was very honest with us about how volatile intellectual property is, especially in the software space. Who Owns Digital Badges? That was when I recruited a team to build a tool to do it automatically.

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Planning for the Total Cost of Edtech Initiatives

edWeb.net

Strategic planning for edtech is an endless journey—and not just because of constantly evolving hardware and software. Most educators look at the cost of their device and software, but what they need to understand is that the total cost includes PD, tech support, sustainability. Are they prepared to adapt to other systems?

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Is the college degree outdated?

The Hechinger Report

Udacity, which in 2014 turned its focus to tech training, last October offered a nanodegree in self-driving cars; the company reported 11,000 applicants for 500 spots. Never mind that she had a college degree and had written software manuals, even books. The company hopes that software developers will then invent new versions.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. billion by 2025.

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