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

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Education Data and Learning Analytics. Khan Academy. The Battle to Open Textbooks. The Platforming of Education. Automation and Artificial Intelligence. The Politics of Ed-tech. The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2011. Social Media: Adoption and Crackdown. Text-messaging. The Digital Library.

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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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