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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 19, 2017 Textbooks could be history as schools switch to free online learning | Philly.com → Garnet Valley is a district in the vanguard of a nationwide movement to ditch traditional textbooks for open-source educational resources on the web. " says Google Family Link manager Saurabh Sharma.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. UC Berkeley Deletes Its Online Lectures. Um, they do.)

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Here’s Edsurge’s “exclusive” on the news that Android apps will soon be able on Chromebooks. ” And “ Education news from Google I/O : tools to take learning further.” Elsevier has acquired SSRN , an online open access repository. .” Upgrades and Downgrades.