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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It Apple : “Apple iPad Sales to Schools Jump 32%, Selling 1M Tablets in Fiscal Q3 2017,” Edsurge reported in August. Students will receive iPads.

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Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources

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Secondary, they will enable what most people in the education world want to see happen.”. Pearson was one of the companies, along with Apple, that was faulted as the Los Angeles Unified school district’s 1-to-1 iPad program, faced technical breakdowns and backlash. If it doesn’t, it won’t, and it won’t deserve to.

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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. At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. The iPad would solve that,” he said. Bill Gates wouldn’t let his kids have cellphones.

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