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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). Think the private school startup Bridge International Academies that operates in Africa, for example, which Peg Tyre documented so devastatingly in The New York Times Magazine this summer.). The Chromebooks are not fully-functioning laptops.

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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. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. For the past ten years, every ten months or so, someone would pen an op-ed claiming it was time to ban laptops in the classroom. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Politico : “ Success Academy documents point to ‘possible cheating’ among challenges.” ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. ” “ One-to-One Laptop Initiatives Boost Student Scores, Researchers Find” says Education Week. From the HR Department.