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Picking on great education and technology myths

Bryan Alexander

I picked the topic as a clear example of a myth that soared high and crashed hard. Then I asked participants to think about lessons learned from puncturing that myth. Myth 4: MOOCS will transform everything. One chimed in with admiration for the Modern Poetry MOOC. The digital divide. And they fizzled.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools. Um, they do.)

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