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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2019)

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That's what a decade of ed-tech social media and PR have wrought: hashtag gurus and fake news. Pearson said it would shift its strategy and make all its textbooks “ digital first ” (which you just know is going to cost students more). PowerSchool acquired the K-12 LMS Schoology. Good work, Adam and Rebekah.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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was named in an investigation by The Associated Press last year for sharing racially charged content on social media.” Via The Guardian : “ Trump bans agencies from ‘providing updates on social media or to reporters’ ” This ban has been targeted at scientists at the EPA and USDA in particular.