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2016 and Beyond: The Future of Classroom Technology by @MelanieNathan

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Laptops and computer workstations have already made significant inroads into traditional learning environments. These venues range from MOOCs (free massive online open courses) to traditional brick-and-mortar public schools. Possibly that situation will change permanently in 2016.

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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, Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. Um, they do.) WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “The University of California, Los Angeles , is planning a major expansion in the online certificate and graduate degree markets that it hopes will reach as many as 15,000 students by early next decade,” Inside Higher Ed reports. This story about laptops.