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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It Students will receive iPads. It’s a theme that runs throughout almost every article in this series.“Fake

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via The New York Times : “Apple Unveils New iPad to Catch Google in the Classroom.” ” Via The Verge : “Apple is ready to fight Google’s Chromebooks with cheaper iPads.” ” Also via The Verge : “Apple’s new iPad with Pencil support is just $299 for schools.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids have iPads. Course Signals, a software product developed by Purdue University, was designed to boost “student success” by using learning analytics to inform teachers, students, and staff to potential problems, labeling students with a red/yellow/green scheme to indicate their danger in failing a course.

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