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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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Are any education technologies, for that matter? Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. And accordingly, platforms are the underlying trend that ties together popular narratives about technology and the economy in general. They’re amazing.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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The Department of Education has released a “Higher Education Supplement to the National Education Technology Plan ,” just in the nick of time I guess. ” “ Harvard/MIT Report Analyzes 4 Years of MOOC Data ,” Campus Technology reports. More via Inside Higher Ed. More on the report via Edsurge.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via the MIT Technology Review : “For $14,000, a Weeklong Firehose of Silicon Valley Kool-Aid.” The American Library Association announced its youth media awards. “Learning technology once reserved for special needs students is now in everyone’s hands. ” Contests and Awards. ”). (To