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Picking on great education and technology myths

Bryan Alexander

Today I gave a webinar on a new theme, “Great.edu myths of our time” TurnItIn.com hosted the event, and Jason Chu over there inspired the topic. So gaming beat virtual worlds, and at least one person saw competency-based learning trumping MOOCs. The digital divide. Folks mentioned adjuncts.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.) The TED Talk.

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