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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). And then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s venture philanthropy firm and its commitment to fund “personalized learning.”

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

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Learning to Code. Education Data and Learning Analytics. Online Learning. Mobile Learning. Social Learning, Social Networks. The Maker Movement. The Flipped Classroom. The Battle to Open Textbooks. The Platforming of Education. Automation and Artificial Intelligence. The Politics of Ed-tech.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids have iPads. It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. Ed-Tech Startup Accelerators.

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