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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). Siegler: “ The End of the Library.”

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

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The Common Core State Standards. Education Data and Learning Analytics. The Digital Library. The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014. The Business of Ed-tech. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education. Competencies and Certificates. Data and Privacy. The Indie Web. Social Justice.

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Top Ed-Tech Trends: A Review

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Here we are with a President-Elect – a reality TV star – who has been supported by white nationalists, the KKK, Wikileaks, trolls, and Peter Thiel, who election was facilitated through a massive misinformation campaign spread virally through Facebook. The Common Core State Standards. The Digital Library.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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In addition to funding this lawsuit, Thiel sits on the board of Facebook , which itself is playing a huge role in the “ future of news.” Testing, Testing… “ Common Core testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on social media,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss.