Audrey Watters: The Most Important Post of the Decade: The 100 Worst EdTech Disasters of the Decade
I just opened my email and discovered this brilliant post by Audrey Watters, whose critical voice on EdTech is indispensable.
Watters lists the 100 biggest EdTech debacles of the past decade, and seeing them all in one place is astonishing.
What strikes me is the combination of unadulterated arrogance (i.e., chutzpah), coupled with repeated failures.
What is also impressive are the number of entries that were hailed by the media or by assorted journalists, then slipped quietly down the drain, without impairing the reputation of the huckster who took the money and ran.
Again and again, we encounter EdTech start-ups and innovations that are greeted with wild acclaim and hype, but whose collapse is ignored as the parade moves on to the next overpromised miracle technology.
Whatever happened to the promise that half of all courses in school would be taught online by this year (false) or that most colleges and universities would die because of the rise of the MOOC (false)? Why do virtual CONTINUE READING: Audrey Watters: The Most Important Post of the Decade: The 100 Worst EdTech Disasters of the Decade | Diane Ravitch's blog
