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10 Experts’ Predictions for Education and Technology in 2016

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But that hasn’t stopped us from asking a number of experts in education and technology to gaze into their crystal balls and share their thoughts on one major EdTech trend we can expect to see lighting up learning and one major challenge that education will face in 2016. Savas Savides (Publisher & Former Educator, Greece).

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MIT’s Mitch Resnick on What ‘Toy Story’ Gets Wrong About the Future of Play

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To Mitchel Resnick, an MIT Media Lab professor and early pioneer of the maker movement for kids, this Hollywood’s portrayal is problematic, and part of a larger trend toward overly regimenting education these days. “I We started the online class for the first time a few years ago when MOOCs were becoming population.

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30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom

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I’ve listed some examples of disruption in education below, and ranked them (though obviously the ranking is entirely subjective and only useful as a crude reference point to start your own thinking). Common Core standards (this one’s not sexy, but few factors impact education more than this index of academic content).

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The Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology

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Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2017: The Stories We’ve Been Told. At the end of every year since I founded Hack Education in 2010, I’ve reviewed what I think are the most important and influential trends in education technology. No, fidget spinners were not a “top ed-tech trend” this year.

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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2019)

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Several months ago, I started to jot down ideas about what I'd cover in my annual review of what's happened over the course of the past 12 months in the field / industry /promotion of education technology. For the past decade, I've churned out a multi-part series on the dominant trends and narratives.

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Top Ed-Tech Trends: A Review

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It’s time once again for my annual review of “the year in education technology,” something I’ve done since 2010. Things feel quite uncertain moving forward, despite all the certainty one can supposedly muster from looking back – from looking at the near-term or long-term history and trends.

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