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

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Social Media, Campus Activism, and Free Speech. Education Data and Learning Analytics. Social Media: Adoption and Crackdown. Khan Academy. Standardized Testing. “The Employability Narrative” Credits and Credentialing. The Collapse of For-Profit Higher Education (Or Not).

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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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. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised.

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