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Sony Vows to Bring “Blockchain” Tech to Education. Will It Take Hold in K-12?

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With students’ consent, data would be shared with different audiences, and made reusable within the blockchain. “Individuals and enterprises could anonymously utilize the data to analyze personal learning history,” the Sony Global Education executive said. Goodbye, Middleman?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. In 2018, Mozilla said it would retire Backpack, its platform for sharing and displaying badges, and would help users move their badges to Badgr, software developed by the tech company Concentric Sky. And “free” doesn’t last.

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