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Look Who’s Talking—Michael Trucano from the Brookings Institution on AI in education

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List of Takeaways: In-Person Interaction is Invaluable: While virtual communication tools like Zoom have become ubiquitous, there’s no substitute for in-person interactions, especially in events like CoSN 2024. I mean, I get, you know, pitch decks from companies. I’m going to use Chegg PT to do this. 00:02:57 Yeah.

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Stale Words and Hackneyed Ideas That Make Edtech Investors Cringe

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If you go to startup pitch events, you’ve seen it happen: An entrepreneur says something—something so naïve, egregious and hackneyed—that it makes the investors, along with educators who are now increasingly in the audience, physically cringe. Do you know what company is “Facebook for country X?” Yet another student book exchange.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” The winners of this year’s Pulitzer Prizes include Harvard University’s Matthew Desmond for his book Evicted and the Salt Lake Tribune’s staff for its reporting on sexual assault at BYU. Via CMX : “ How Edcamp Scaled Up 1,500 Community Events Connecting Educators All Over the World.” million total.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last.

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