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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow.

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30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom

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To push it further, one definition of disruption might be a bottom-up cause that substantially effects the ecology it is a part of (e.g., Adaptive learning platforms and learning algorithms. MOOCs, nanodegrees, etc. First, some quick clarification so that we have a common language. Ease of publishing (e.g.,

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. Uber for Education". “We

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