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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. It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. Pearson PARCC "Spies" on Students. Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools. And “free” doesn’t last. Online Grade Portals.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” These headlines just kill me. ” More MOOC data in the “research” section below. Testing, Testing… From the OECD : “ PISA 2015 Results.” ” Via THE Journal : “Report: Ed Tech Startups Stink at Student Data Privacy.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Education Week : “ Mississippi Attorney General Sues Google Over Student-Data Privacy.” ” There’s more MOOC-related research in the research section below. ” “Who Is Really Benefiting From Early Access to Federal Student Aid ?” ” Education in the Courts.

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

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Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. According to the Data Quality Campaign , “Student data privacy was a priority issue in state legislatures in 2016.”

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