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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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Learning Revolution Free PD - Two Great Library Events - GlobalEdCon Deadline - UNC's Amazing World View

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Updates Partner Spotlight Partner Announcements Calendar of Events Deadlines Highlighted Recordings NMC Navigator Top Ten Conversations Updates "Participatory, Continuous, Connected" | Top Trends from the Library 2.014 Conference. For more information visit [link]. More information at [link]. For more information, click here.

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

Hack Education

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. Wishful Thinking.

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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2019)

Hack Education

For the past decade, I've churned out a multi-part series on the dominant trends and narratives. But we can't do so if we keep cultivating an ed-tech (information) ecosystem that fosters inaccuracies and inequalities. It’s not that these things are necessarily trends; it’s that certain folks very much hope they will be.