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15 hot edtech trends for 2017

eSchool News

Stephen Downes works in the Learning and Performance Support Systems program at the National Research Council, a multi-year effort to develop personal learning technology and learning analytics. This collaboration allows candidates to view theory in practice and makes learning on campus more authentic.

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

Hack Education

The Common Core State Standards. Learning to Code. Education Data and Learning Analytics. The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014. The Business of Ed-tech. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education. Competencies and Certificates. Data and Privacy. The Indie Web. Social Justice.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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

Hack Education

” Via Chalkbeat : “They rejected multi-state Common Core exams. It was one of two social media messages – the other a Twitter photo of Tunsil smoking marijuana through a gas mark – that were posted during the NFL draft. ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.].