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The Winners and Filmstrips of An (Almost) Decade in Education Technology

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Digital badges. In fact, I think some of the biggest edtech trends have been rather. Three types of edtech joined the “filmstrip” category in this decade: Learning Management Systems , MOOC s, and digital badges. Employers don’t know what to do with digital badges. OER and open books. underwhelming.

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Edthena Adds Micro-Credentials to Help Districts Recognize Teacher Growth

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District leaders and coaches can design and issue custom micro-credentials when teachers demonstrate skill mastery within the Edthena video platform. Then teachers can gather video evidence and non-video artifacts of those skills and securely share them with a coach or mentor.

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What Problems Has Edtech Solved, and What New Ones Did It Create?

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Open digital badges. Shauntel Garvey, General Partner at Reach Capital Shauntel Garvey: When initially thinking about video conferencing, I like others envisioned a boardroom instead of a classroom. What trend or fad will resurface next decade? What technology never lived up to expectations or the hype?

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Millennials: The Straw That Will Stir Higher Education’s Next Disruption

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Their attention is also captured by an intense entertainment milieu of movies, TV, video games, comics, and the internet (with more students in the grip of internet addiction , even to mostly text-based sites such as Reddit). One example of this is the newest trend of “ digital badges.”

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COVID-19 Is Accelerating the Digital Blending of Working and Learning

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Restaurants have rapidly shifted to online and mobile ordering, and are speeding up the deployment of digital kiosks that replace human workers. These trends present great risks in a job market that is already polarized and biased toward knowledge work and technology skills, with growing gaps based on educational attainment.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Edsurge : “As LinkedIn ’s Video Library Grows, Company Says It Has No Plans to Compete With Colleges.” “ Digital Badges Are Gaining Traction,” according to MIndwire Consulting’s Michael Feldstein. Related, via Doug Belshaw : “Some thoughts on the future of the Open Badges backpack.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. He didn’t invent the idea of video-taping instruction to watch at home and doing “homework” in the classroom instead; but history don’t matter in Silicon Valley. Viral School Videos.

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