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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, They recorded school resource officers. Um, they do.) Chatbot Instructors.

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Education Technology's Inequalities

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Our society likes opportunity because it does not demand redistribution of resources acquired through harm. Indeed, the World Bank issued a report in January arguing that digital technologies – not just robots in factories – stand to widen inequalities as well, “and even hasten the hollowing out of middle-class employment.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news down in the “labor and management” section below. The folks at Getting Smart promote CS and SEL resources on Facebook for Education. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Indiana University has joined edX.