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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. It was an elaborate scam, dating back to 2012, but one that gave out many online signals that the school was “real.”

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” Via Cleveland.com : “National e-school figure to test new approach to online learning here in Ohio.” “An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg : our child died at** Sandy Hook** – why let Facebook lies hurt us even more?” ” That figure is K12 Inc founder Ron Packard. Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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. “The UK government has published its 2016 HE White Paper, entitled Success as a Knowledge Economy: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice,” the Times Higher Education reports. And The Next Web headline makes for… something: “ Facebook and Google could be allowed to award university degrees.”

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Via Patheos : “ BYU-Idaho Professor Fired After Defending LGBT Rights in Private Facebook Post.” ” “ Personalized learning ” equals cutting the teacher workforce in Oklahoma. Via KQED’s Mindshift : “ MIT’s Scratch Program Is Evolving For Greater, More Mobile Creativity.”