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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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There’s really no agreed-upon definition of “personalized learning” after all , and as such no real way to measure how many or how well schools are actually implementing it. The article takes that assertion at face value; many readers probably did too. Whatever “it” is.

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30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom

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First, some quick clarification so that we have a common language. 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., ” The article goes on to point out some examples of this kind of dilemma, and how certain businesses responded.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.) And everyone clicks and rages and snipes all over again.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Speaking of openwashing : “ Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core , Rise of ‘Open’ Resources.” .” Here’s the WaPo headline : “Girls outscore boys on inaugural national test of technology, engineering skills.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Testing, Testing… Via Education Week : “The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium , a major designer of common-core tests for states, is looking for a new fiscal agent after the University of California, Los Angeles, said it will no longer do that work.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).