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31 Mar 22maggiemac1975
Fun article about debacles
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24 Feb 20Mathieu Plourde
"I thought for a good long while about how best to summarize this decade, and inspired by the folks at The Verge, who published a list of “The 84 biggest flops, fails, and dead dreams of the decade in tech,” I decided to do something similar: chronicle for you a decade of ed-tech failures and fuck-ups and flawed ideas."
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09 Jan 20Lisa Koster
Okay #edtech folks, our goal for the 2020s is to do well enough so that @audreywatters only has to write about 50 Ed-Tech debacles in December 2029.
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05 Jan 20Matt Esterman
@mesterman @EdSurge @stringer_andrea @YongZhaoEd @MrMCimino @AdrianoDiPrato @gregmiller68 @cjpb63 @townesy77 Have you seen this - https://t.co/3NE1aacecK via @audreywatters
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Francois Guite
A decade of ed-tech failures and fuck-ups and flawed ideas. Other keywords: social emotional learning, IBM Watson, Knewton, bootcamp, programming, personalization, Pearson, common core, testing, automation, AI, e-learning, glasses, grading, predictive analytics, blockchain, behaviourism, classroom management, MOOC.
ICT technology critique education free textbook publishing portal 3D printing flipped classroom ban clickers badge interactive whiteboard pedagogy chatbot Alexa cheating training brain Montessori Google Chromebook TED-talks virtual reality code
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Nate Kellogg
"“[The] literature [on online education] was preoccupied with what I call ‘roaming autodidacts’. A roaming autodidact is a self-motivated, able learner that is simultaneously embedded in technocratic futures and disembedded from place, cultural, history, and markets. The roaming autodidact is almost always conceived as western, white, educated and male. As a result of designing for the roaming autodidact, we end up with a platform that understands learners as white and male, measuring learners’ task efficiencies against an unarticulated norm of western male whiteness. It is not an affirmative exclusion of poor students or bilingual learners or black students or older students, but it need not be affirmative to be effective. Looking across this literature, our imagined educational futures are a lot like science fiction movies: there’s a conspicuous absence of brown people and women” — Tressie McMillan Cottom, “Intersectionality and Critical Engagement With The Internet” (2015)"
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95. "Roaming Autodidacts"
“[The] literature [on online education] was preoccupied with what I call ‘roaming autodidacts’. A roaming autodidact is a self-motivated, able learner that is simultaneously embedded in technocratic futures and disembedded from place, cultural, history, and markets. The roaming autodidact is almost always conceived as western, white, educated and male. As a result of designing for the roaming autodidact, we end up with a platform that understands learners as white and male, measuring learners’ task efficiencies against an unarticulated norm of western male whiteness. It is not an affirmative exclusion of poor students or bilingual learners or black students or older students, but it need not be affirmative to be effective. Looking across this literature, our imagined educational futures are a lot like science fiction movies: there’s a conspicuous absence of brown people and women” — Tressie McMillan Cottom, “Intersectionality and Critical Engagement With The Internet” (2015)
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Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world’s entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. …There is no justice in following unjust laws. It’s time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture. — Aaron Swartz, 2008
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Many in Silicon Valley like to point to the Montessori experiences of famous founders like Larry Page, Sergei Brin, Jimmy Wales, and Jeff Bezos and suggest that their early childhood education helped make them creative thinkers — although it’s probably not fair to blame Montessori for the destructiveness to our democracy from Google and Amazon. It is fair, however, to blame “Montessori 2.0” for this new affiliation of so-called progressive education and surveillance technologies.
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13. Blockchain Anything
There is no good reason to use Blockchain technologies — in education or otherwise. The Blockchain will not prevent cheating. It will not stop people from lying on their resume. It will not make it easier for students to request a copy of their school transcripts. It will not improve college retention rates. It would not have prevented the “college admissions scandal.”
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02 Jan 20Juan José López
"100 worst ed tech ideas of the decade," from @audreywatters, fantastic reminder/retrospective of where we've been. I of course don't agree w/ every detail in this long piece, but this article is another reason I consider Watters a national treasure. http
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Betha Gutsche
Audrey Watters on ed-related flops of the 2010s
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Michael Walker
This past decade was not a good one for #EdTech despite attention, money, & effort. Let’s do better in the ’20’s shall we? Thanks @audreywatters for this sobering lineup https://t.co/aK3CqoVJiy
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Gregg Eilers
Need to check this out... https://t.co/icjgGoGTjn
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haraldgroven
“Arguably, the closure of Google Reader was not just a blow to news consumption; it was a blow to blogging as well. It became harder and harder for small, personal sites (like this one) to compete with the giant, venture-backed ones (like that one).” http
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Jamie Camp
Blogger, thinker & curmudgeon Audrey Watters' take on the past decade in edtech. She's not wrong about a LOT of it, although she is slightly more pessimistic than me. Not a small feat.
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roberto marcolin
[pigeons ?] Innovations numériques en éducation, le top 100 des flops #EdTech de la décennie par @audreywatters ! Tout le monde en prend pour son grade : TBI, MOOC, classe inversée... Américain et à charge, mais attention aux effets de mode. https://t.co/
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Jennifer Parsons
All the billions spent on educational tech amounted to...mostly nothing and often harmed students.
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Stephen Taylor
Best article of the year / decade! I could add more items of ridiculousness to this! https://t.co/uVrdtjQlP6
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jplamondon
Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools. It works well too for teachers wanting to bypass the procurement bureaucracy. It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.
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Andrew Williamson
Congrats everyone https://t.co/auPV8Kp7VZ
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Maureen Tumenas
Congrats everyone https://t.co/auPV8Kp7VZ
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Deborah White
This article is dense & informative. While many ideas have their positives & debacles on the list, the philosophy of getting back to the learning is still the central mission https://t.co/gpHyjnesG9
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Phil Taylor
I loved reading this - it really speaks to the way that education desperately wants a silver bullet, and businesses are more than willing to create a thing that claims to be a silver bullet.
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leightonforbes
Congrats everyone https://t.co/auPV8Kp7VZ
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Mary Beth Hertz
Congrats everyone https://t.co/auPV8Kp7VZ
I'm slowly reading my way through -- and savoring -- this wonderful, accurate, insightful piece by @audreywatters
There are a handful of people who know enough to write a piece this thorough, and no one I know aside from Audrey could cover this so deftl -
Verena Roberts
In reading through the list of EdTech failures over the last decade (https://t.co/zuvJAn0hQu) I can't escape how much tech effort was put into creating chokepoints on the educational process, often in the interest of scale.
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Verena Roberts
In reading through the list of EdTech failures over the last decade (https://t.co/zuvJAn0hQu) I can't escape how much tech effort was put into creating chokepoints on the educational process, often in the interest of scale.
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Meg Allison
82. “The End of Libraries” stories...
It’s definitely been a ride of fear about the end although the premise has been debunked as thriving libraries have evolved
I loved this re eliminating fines: “because libraries, unlike Techcrunch writers, do care t -
Steven Verjans
The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade https://t.co/aI0RJsG6ih
Quite a list! I think my faves are Ning (as cautionary tale) & Christensen’s predictions (as an example of Ed tech BS). Thanks @audreywatters, it is a hell of an undertaking - every university principal should have it pinned to their wall https://t.co
Fabulous article by @audreywatters waw, what a great demystifying post listing #Edtech projects and putting them into #educational & truthful contexts https://t.co/jImBDcM0id
"100 worst ed tech ideas of the decade," from @audreywatters, fantastic reminder/retrospective of where we've been. I of course don't agree w/ every detail in this long piece, but this article is another reason I consider Watters a national treasure. http
Zo herkenbaar vanuit de klaspraktijk! In dit heerlijk stuk rekent @audreywatters af met een decennium aan onderwijstechnologie (en welke beloften ze niet hebben ingelost). Soms (te) sterk geformuleerd en niet alles van toepassing voor VL/NL, maar toch: ht -
Sheri Edwards
This is an incredible list from @audreywatters. It's fascinating to see how a relatively small handful of players play recurring roles in these failures. The repeating patterns of failed ideas are striking as well. https://t.co/9b7yLIcmA8
In reading through the list of EdTech failures over the last decade (https://t.co/zuvJAn0hQu) I can't escape how much tech effort was put into creating chokepoints on the educational process, often in the interest of scale. -
Donna Baumbach
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Lyn Hilt
Congrats everyone https://t.co/auPV8Kp7VZ
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Ed Allen
Congrats everyone https://t.co/auPV8Kp7VZ
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Alfonso Gonzalez
For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. I think it is worthwhile, as the decade draws to a close, to review those stories and to see how much (…
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Apostolos K.
Absolutely loved thishttps://t.co/qq8vLqIzfv
— Apostolos K. (@koutropoulos) January 1, 2020
For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. I think it is worthwhile, as the decade draws to a close, to review those stories and to see how much (… -
Tania Sheko
Congrats everyone https://t.co/auPV8Kp7VZ
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31 Dec 19Leo Havemann
Truly a must read. I’m still at #92 and working my way down. Thank you as always @audreywatters for this review. https://t.co/qzAOITXADv
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Gavan Watson
Read this thru my privacy lens. Some good old fashioned Red Tape instead of this Wild West would go a long way to protect students’ data. Handing it over to big tech w/o understanding or investigation, just believing in magic, not the solution. You’ll enj
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juan domingo farnos
Congrats everyone https://t.co/auPV8Kp7VZ
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rnidhubhda
Lengthy (understandably) but thoroughly engaging - well worth the read: The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade https://t.co/p8bymP5ojv
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futuretest
"For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. I think it is worthwhile, as the decade draws to a close, to review those stories and to see how much (or how little) things have changed. You can read the series here: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019.
I thought for a good long while about how best to summarize this decade, and inspired by the folks at The Verge, who published a list of “The 84 biggest flops, fails, and dead dreams of the decade in tech,” I decided to do something similar: chronicle for you a decade of ed-tech failures and fuck-ups and flawed ideas.
Oh yes, I’m sure you can come up with some rousing successes and some triumphant moments that made you thrilled about the 2010s and that give you hope for “the future of education.” Good for you. But that’s not my job. (And honestly, it’s probably not your job either.)"thefuturetest Educational_Trends Audrey_Watters educational_technology 2010s failure X01_20_Research_Trends_03
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Dimitris Tzouris
For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. I think it is worthwhile, as the decade draws to a close, to review those stories and to see how much (…
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