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Picking on great education and technology myths

Bryan Alexander

Actually, profs use them primarily to share documents. So gaming beat virtual worlds, and at least one person saw competency-based learning trumping MOOCs. The digital divide. This elicited the first pushback, as some people wrote in to celebrate their use of MOOCs for personal professional development.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” Um, they do.) But the “spying” has continued. Chatbot Instructors.

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