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October 24 - Ed Tech News, Our Weekly Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Welcome to week two of this new weekly blog post / email, including the round-up of the week''s news and podcast with Audrey Watters. The Library 2.011 worldwide virtual conference starts in just over a week! of Text-Messaging at School A Big Step for Gesture-Based Learning? November 2 - 4, all online, all free.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Purdue University is buying Kaplan University for a dollar. Me, I wrote about how far Kaplan Inc ’s reach is in education politics and products. ” I’m more interested in hearing about segregation and state laws in Mississippi than the adaptive learning software a school is using. Or something else?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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And like so many products on this list, 3D printing was hailed as a revolution in education, and schools were encouraged to reorient libraries and shop classes towards “maker spaces” which would give students opportunities to print their plastic designs. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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