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Why so much educational technology fails, and how to make it better
by Keith Sawyer

Why so much educational technology fails, and how to make it better

Shiny trinkets are shiny.

Technologies are flooding into schools, but with very little evidence that students are learning any better. The problem is that all too many educational technologies aren’t grounded in what scientists know about how people learn. Instead, they use the flashy buzzwords of the moment—MOOC, flipped classroom, et cetera.

Learning scientists have discovered a lot about how people learn, and one

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