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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms
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.” Re-reading that article now makes me...
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The Weaponization of Education Data
This is part five of my annual look at the year’s “top ed-tech stories”As in previous years, it would be quite easy to fill a whole article in this series on “data insecurity,” on the data breaches and...
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I’m halfway through my annual series on the year’s “Top Ed-Tech Trends” – all the stories that we’ve been told about education technology and the future of education in 2017. Perhaps you’re overwhelmed...
View ArticleEducation's Online Futures
This is part six of my annual look at the year’s “top ed-tech stories”Some of the most oft-told tales in education in recent years have the following plot: the students all move from...
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(National) Education Politics RIP Net Neutrality. Thoughts on how this might effect education from Inside Higher Ed, from NPR, from Internet2 (via Bryan Alexander), from The Washington Post, and from...
View ArticleEducation Technology and the Future of Academic Freedom
This is part seven of my annual look at the year’s “top ed-tech stories”It was one of the most frequently repeated stories of the year – a story that has, if we’re being honest, been repeated for...
View Article'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'
This is part eight of my annual look at the year’s “top ed-tech stories”In previous years, I’ve looked at how education technology is intertwined with narratives about “skills,” “competencies,” and...
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'The Ed-Tech Mafia'
I cannot believe that in the midst of everything I’m trying to accomplish right now I agreed to give a talk. But I did. And so tonight I spoke with the educators at NYCIST. They were very kind and put...
View Article'Robots Are Coming For Your Children'
This is part nine of my annual look at the year’s “top ed-tech stories”“We Need to Rethink How We Educate Kids to Tackle the Jobs of the Future.” It’s a core refrain in “the innovation gospel,” one of...
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(National) Education Politics The GOP passed their tax plan. Various education-related updates – via The New York Times: “How the Republican Tax Plan Uses School Savings to Hurt States.” Via Education...
View ArticleEducation Technology and the New Behaviorism
This is part ten of my annual look at the year’s “top ed-tech stories”Perhaps it’s no surprise that there was so much talk this year about education, technology, and emotional health. I mean, 2017...
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(National) Education Politics “Where is Trump’s Cabinet?” asks Politico. “It’s anybody’s guess.” The story include updates about US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and her failure to disclosure her...
View ArticleThe Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'
This is part eleven of my annual look at the year’s “top ed-tech stories”In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual “Internet Trends” report. The report is...
View ArticleThe Stories We Were Told in 2017 about Education Technology
I wouldn’t say these are all the stories about education technology we were told this year. But these are the ones I decided to analyze:Education Technology and Fake NewsEducation Technology, Betsy...
View ArticleNew Year's Updates
I’ve made some changes to this site, most obviously updating the header image. That’s thanks to Bryan Mathers, of course, who continues to capture what I am thinking so perfectly in his drawings. (Why...
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(National) Education Politics You know it’s amazing news when The Guardian publishes it one minute after midnight in the new year: “Toby Young to help lead government’s new universities regulator.”...
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Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of...
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Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of...
View ArticlePLATO and the History of Education Technology (That Wasn't)
The computer scientist Bret Victor gave a keynote back in 2013 that I return to again and again. (See? Keynotes need not be a waste of time and energy!) In “The Future of Programming,” he offers a...
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Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of...
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