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Finding ‘Personalized Learning’ and Other Edtech Buzzwords on the Gartner Hype Cycle

Edsurge

Slope of Enlightenment: Competency-Based Learning. Alongside personalized learning are a whole heap of concepts that some have declared are a necessary part of personalized learning. Competency-based learning is one of these. But there is a phrase for that: deeper learning.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

As education author Alfie Kohn has long argued , homework represents a “second shift” for students, and there’s mixed evidence they get much out of it. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. For the past ten years, every ten months or so, someone would pen an op-ed claiming it was time to ban laptops in the classroom. One Laptop Per Child.

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