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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

I was inspired, I think, to select that topic because talk of “platforms” was incredibly popular in Silicon Valley – it had been for a while – as companies strove to become “the next Facebook.” Think Facebook. Arguably, one of the best candidates is the learning management system. .”

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The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed

The Hechinger Report

The school used the money for a bulk order of Google Chromebooks, allowing every classroom to have a laptop for each student. Related: Rethinking grade levels and school design for personalized learning. But that doesn’t mean it’s actually creating the learning experience that we’re going for.”.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” Via the Google blog : “Rolling Study Halls: turning bus time into learning time.” ” The Verge covers the blog post : “ Google is equipping more rural school buses with Wi-Fi and Chromebooks.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. There was a regularly updated Facebook page, a Twitter account, as well as a LinkedIn profile for its supposed president.

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