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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. Then I asked participants to think about lessons learned from puncturing that myth. Myth 4: MOOCS will transform everything. The digital divide.

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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, MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness.

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