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The Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology

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Social Media, Campus Activism, and Free Speech. The Common Core State Standards. Learning to Code. Education Data and Learning Analytics. Social Media: Adoption and Crackdown. Beyond the MOOC. The Compulsion for Data. Indie Ed-Tech. The Business of Ed-Tech. The Business of Ed-tech.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Chalkbeat : “They rejected multi-state Common Core exams. ” “Frustrated with how colleges have handled their claims of sexual abuse , more students are turning to social media to publicize their cases,” Inside Higher Ed reports. – this time in science. ” asks The Atlantic.