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In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

Digital Promise

Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software. Most analysts -- and the school district itself -- blamed the failure on buggy software. Too many edtech initiatives treat teachers as robotic implementers of a higher plan.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

danah boyd has announced that she’ll be stepping down from running her research organization Data & Society. ” Among the new features: facial recognition to unlock the new iPhone. ” asks Education Week. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “Blame Big Data.” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. Strada Education (formerly USA Funds) has acquired Economic Modeling LLC (also known as Emsi).