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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2019)

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That’s why stories about the golly-gee-whiz prospects of learning to code, game-based learning, social emotional learning, artificial intelligence, blockchain transcripts, and tutoring — by chatbots or by gig workers — still fill the pages of these publications. Something about "learning engineers".

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” “ State educational technology directors have outlined ambitious targets for increasing school bandwidth capacity in an effort to support digital learning and bridge the technology divide that exists in schools and in students’ homes,” says Education Week. ” The company in question: edX.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

I missed this news earlier in April, via Class Central : financial aid applications for Coursera take at least 15 days. Game-based learning company Legends of Learning has raised $9 million in seed funding from Baltimore Angels. Not sure why this is called a MOOC.

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