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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Education Dive : “ Coursera ’s Tom Willerer talks personalization, access.” Via The New York Times : “To Close Digital Divide, Microsoft to Harness Unused Television Channels.” ” are you s g me pic.twitter.com/4MZQqbVdOG — Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) July 8, 2017.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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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, Coursera has raised over $310 million. Um, they do.)

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