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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Or the company will have to start charging for the software. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.)

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news down in the “labor and management” section below. Remember: the biases of engineers and managers get baked into the software you use. Indiana University has joined edX. Meanwhile on Campus… “Forget Lazy Rivers.