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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. ”) It was certainly the outcome that investors were hoping for Edmodo , which raised $25 million in 2012, boasting that it had 15 million users. But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later.

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Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 4

Bryan Alexander

The focus now is technology for personalized learning, including data analytics. In fact, the frequency of treating alone accounts for most of the variation in learning outcomes…” Plug this into the digital world, and. Twitter’s also a fine place to chat (I’m @BryanAlexander ).

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Hack Education Weekly News

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It was one of two social media messages – the other a Twitter photo of Tunsil smoking marijuana through a gas mark – that were posted during the NFL draft. Via Techcrunch : “ Lilwil ’s personalized learning engine teaches teachers how to teach.” From the HR Department. But not all her claims add up.”

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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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The Weaponization of Education Data

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A hacked school Twitter account in Florida. More data collection will improve student learning and student outcomes. ” It will enable “personalization.” ” “The Higher Ed Learning Revolution,” as NPR put it: Tracking Each Student’s Every Move.“

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