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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

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And this has kept kind of the digital adoption rate in higher education very low — we’re at about an 8-percent e-textbook adoption rate because the prices of the used market directly undercut the available digital prices and certainly the new textbook prices. So this 8-percent e-textbook adoption rate is very alarming.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” Via The New York Times : “ New Mexico Outlaws School ‘Lunch Shaming’ ” Via Buzzfeed : “ California Shows The Rest Of The Country How To Boost Kindergarten Vaccination Rates.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “How Open E-Credentials Will Transform Higher Education.”

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Via Education Week : “ E-Rate , Other Universal-Service Funds to Be Transferred to U.S. ” Via Gamasutra : “Parents take Subway Surfers devs to court over alleged misuse of kids’ data.” ” A master of science in data journalism from Columbia University’s School of Journalism.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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