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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

” He has backed these initiatives financially; and he has backed the publications and conferences that promote these sorts of efforts. Wonder Workshop (robotics) – $41 million. Robotics , with ~ $99 million in funding. The policy and the discourse. billion in the next five years on education initiatives.

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Re·Con·Figures: The Pigeons of Ed-tech

Hack Education

This talk was presented today at the Designs on eLearning conference. I confess: I was immediately intrigued by the theme to this year’s conference – “Anxiety and Security.” It has become a routine exercise to demonstrate this in classes in elementary psychology by conditioning such an organism as a pigeon.”.