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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. It announced this year it was “ phasing out ” its reliance on Knewton provide those algorithms.). Microsoft Windows devices – again, that’s laptops and tablets – remained at about 22%.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. For the past ten years, every ten months or so, someone would pen an op-ed claiming it was time to ban laptops in the classroom. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. And on and on and on.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Disclosure: the Mooch now follows me on Twitter. Articles about laptop bans – for or against – are not quite the worst. ” According to Edsurge , Knewton is now a courseware company and not a “robot tutor in the sky.” ” Knewton has raised some $157 million in venture capital. (

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