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Year in Review: Our Top Edtech Business Stories of 2018

Edsurge

Apple and Google continue to up the ante in their quest to win adoption in classrooms. Yet it can be tedious to manually keep track of how students interact with different pieces of software—or whether these tools are even being used. Apple’s Strongest Case to Reclaim the Education Market Is Not the New iPad.

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T&L’S ISTE 2018 BEST OF SHOW AWARDS WINNERS

techlearning

ACER CHROMEBOOK TAB 10 ( WWW.ACER.COM/AC/EN/US/CONTENT/HOME ) The Acer Chromebook Tab 10 will be used in classrooms to expand and enhance student learning. In addition, CatchOn helps district administrators mitigate student data privacy risks associated with unknown tool usage.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

Do you know that feeling when you are told your questions about student privacy are unfounded by a representative of a company that earns 86% of its total revenue from advertising? “I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link].

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids have iPads. The iPad would solve that,” he said. His idea was to hire great textbook writers to create digital versions, and make them a feature of the iPad. And “free” doesn’t last.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Edsurge on Education Elements : “Million-Dollar Advice: The High Cost and Limited Return on Personalized Learning Consulting.” ” (I guess this is some sort of follow-up to this 2016 story in Edsurge touting Education Element’s work helping districts implement personalized learning.).