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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). Siegler: “ The End of the Library.”

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15 hot edtech trends for 2017

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They can be something everybody uses; that’s how 2012 became the year of the MOOC, and why virtual reality will no doubt be widely cited as the trend of 2016. Here’s what they said: 2016 was The Year of Video. By Stephen Downes, National Research Council. Now there are different ways things can be a ‘trend of the year’.

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

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The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012. Learning to Code. Education Data and Learning Analytics. The Digital Library. The Battle for “Open” What Counts “For Credit” The Business of Ed-tech. The Business of Ed-tech. The Maker Movement. The Flipped Classroom. The Battle to Open Textbooks.

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Top Ed-Tech Trends: A Review

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The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012. Learning to Code. Education Data and Learning Analytics. The Digital Library. The Battle for “Open” What Counts “For Credit” The Business of Ed-tech. The Business of Ed-tech. The Maker Movement. The Flipped Classroom. The Battle to Open Textbooks.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

But the struggling sector’s political giving is down since peaking in 2012,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” In other MIT news : “MIT task force releases preliminary ‘Future of Libraries ’ report.” Via New America : “The Promise and Peril of Predictive Analytics in Higher Education.”

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Thiel was one of the biggest financiers of Ron Paul's super PAC in 2012. The ALA has released library privacy guidelines for students in K–12 schools. ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. .” ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.].