The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade
http://hackeducation.com/2019/12/31/what-a-shitshow
100. The Horizon Report
99. The Promise of “Free”
98. “Rich People’s Kids Don’t Use Tech” (and Other Stories about the Silicon Valley Elite)
97. Textbook Publishers vs. Boundless
96. Ning
95. “Roaming Autodidacts”
94. Online Grade Portals
93. 3D Printing
92. “The Flipped Classroom”
91. Unizin
90. “Ban Laptops” Op-Eds
89. Clickers
88. Bundling Textbooks with Tuition
87. Amazon Inspire
86. Badges
85. The Teacher Influencer Hustle
84. Ed-Tech Startup Accelerators
83. Shark Tank for Schools
82. “The End of Library” Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That)
81. Interactive Whiteboards
80. Viral School Videos
79. Altius Education
78. The Fake Online University Sting
77. Course Signals
76. Channel One (and the Unsinkable Chris Whittle)
75. Kno
74. “Deliverology”
73. Pearson PARCC “Spies” on Students
72. Chatbot Instructors
71. “Uber for Education”
70. Galvanic Skin Response Bracelets
69. “Unbundling”
68. Instructure
67. UC Berkeley Deletes Its Online Lectures
65. Apple’s iTextbooks
64. Alexa at School
63. ConnectEDU
62. Edsurge
61. Edmodo
60. The Death of Aaron Swartz
59. Clayton Christensen’s Predictions
58. Deborah Quazzo and the Chicago Board of Education
57. TurnItIn (and the Cheating Detection Racket)
56. Brain Training
55. Montessori 2.0
54. Google Reader
53. The TED Talk
52. Virtual Reality
51. The Math Emporium(s)
50. One Laptop Per Child
49. Yik Yak
48. The Hour of Code
47. Brainwave Headbands
46. Compulsory Fitness Trackers
45. WeGrow and WeWork
44. YouTube, the New “Educational TV”
43. Juul
42. “Social Emotional Learning” Software
41. The K-12 Cyber Incident Map
40. IBM Watson
39. Knewton
38. Coding Bootcamps
37. Ed-Tech Payola
36. “Personalized Learning” Software (and Facebook and Summit Public Schools)
35. Pearson’s “Digital Transformation”
34. The LA Times Rates Teachers
33. Online Credit Recovery
32. Common Core State Standards
31. The Gentrification of Sesame Street
30. “Precision Education”
29. Student Loan Startups
28. Computer-Based Testing Blunders
27. Online Preschool
26. Google Glass
25. Peter Thiel
24. The Secretaries of Education
23. OPMs and Outsourcing
22. Automated Essay Grading
21. Rocketship Education
20. Predictive Analytics
19. Platforming Education
18. Bridge International Academies
17. Test Prep
16. Amplify
15. Jeffrey Epstein and the MIT Media Lab
14. inBloom
13. Blockchain Anything
12. The New GED
11. Altschool
10. Google for Education
9. Virtual Charter Schools
8. LAUSD’s iPad Initiative
7. ClassDojo and the New Behaviorism
6. “Everyone Should Learn to Code”
5. Gamergate
4. “The Year of the MOOC”
3. Venture Capitalism
2. (Venture) Philanthropy
1. Anti-School Shooter Software
Stephen
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