![]() In 2017, just a week before Christmas, the New Media Consortium abruptly announced its immediate closure “because of apparent errors and omissions by its former Controller and Chief Financial Officer.” The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade. ![]() (And honestly, it’s probably not your job either.) ![]() 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. 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. 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. For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology.
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