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it is wrong to assume that educational benefits follow easily from emerging computer technologies, be it a search engine, Wiki, blog, or e-learning module with live streaming video. Informational technologies are not, by definition, educational technologies. __The design of educational technologies must be a deeply deliberate practice, informed by philosophical meta-theory, human development, and the new sciences of learning__ (or so I argue in what follows). __Today it is mostly market dynamics that determine what educational technologies are available, and there is no oversight or quality control in the educational technologies industries, which are rapidly growing nonetheless.__
Education in a Time Between Worlds
Zachary Stein
A degree of economic inequality has tended to be seen as an inherent part of a healthy meritocracy. Former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke provided this succinct explanation of the benefits of inequality: “Without the possibility of unequal outcomes tied to differences in skill and effort, the economic outcomes tied to differences in behavior would be eliminated, and our market-based economy—which encourages productive activity primarily through the promise of financial reward—would function far less effectively” (quoted in Page and Jacobs 2009, 15). __The trouble is that over the last thirty years inequality has grown ever greater, while the promise of upward mobility has come to seem more and more of a mirage.__
Gramsci's Common Sense
Kate Crehan
In the 1970s fluctuations in nominal exchange rates were daily occurrences rather than the rare events of the 1960s, but they did not simply iron out the effect of inflation differentials. Such large year to year changes in the competitiveness of a country's traded goods sectors were probably important in discouraging longer-term investments in manufacturing.
Capitalism Unleashed
Andrew Glyn
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