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Justin Reich is the executive director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab, a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and the co-founder of EdTechTeacher. Beth Holland is a doctoral candidate at Johns Hopkins University and an instructor at EdTechTeacher. Douglas Kiang has over 25 years of teaching experience at all grade levels and currently teaches computer science at Punahou School. This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: research.

Education Opinion Is a MOOC a Textbook or a Course?
Exploring the analogies we use to explain and argue about MOOCs.
Justin Reich, May 19, 2013
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Education Opinion Pre-Service Perspective on SMARTboards
Comparing the advantages of interactive whiteboards with the affordances of other low-tech alternatives.
Justin Reich, May 16, 2013
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Education Opinion The Personal Learning Wedge: The Edge is Sharp, the Back is Thick
Video, slides, tweets, and notes from a Berkman Luncheon talk on personalized learning, technology and education reform.
Justin Reich, May 13, 2013
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Education Opinion Amazing Students, Incredible Teachers: Edcamp Boston Recap
A recap from Edcamp Boston organizer Tracy Sockalosky.
Justin Reich, May 10, 2013
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School & District Management Opinion The Digital Fault Line: Parents, Teachers, and Normal
Final post in a series about evolving notions of the digital divide.
Justin Reich, May 9, 2013
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Education Opinion Personalized Learning and Free-Market Education Reform
Invitation and slides for an upcoming talk at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
Justin Reich, May 6, 2013
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Education Opinion The Digital Fault Line: Power, Policy, and Leadership
Emerging research and theory on the evolving digital divide
Justin Reich, May 5, 2013
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Education Opinion The Digital Fault Line: Background
New research on educational inequality in the United States to frame a series of posts on the evolving digital divide.
Justin Reich, May 3, 2013
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Education Opinion Why We Support Edcamp Boston
Why one professional development consultancy supports educator-led, free professional development events.
Justin Reich, April 28, 2013
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Education Opinion What to Make of the Makers?
Learning from the tinkerers who are extremely good at learning.
Justin Reich, April 23, 2013
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Education Opinion Strapping Jet Engines to Stagecoaches; or iPads in Schools
Greg Kulowiec's keynote address at the iPad Summit borrows an evocative analogy from Seymour Papert on the challenges of technology in schools.
Justin Reich, April 17, 2013
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Education Opinion The iPad as a Trojan Mouse
The EdTechTeacher iPad Summit can start conversations but real change requires sustained teacher dialogue.
Justin Reich, April 10, 2013
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Education Opinion Deeper Learning 2013 at High Tech High
Reflections on the 2013 Deeper Learning conference hosted by the Hewlett Foundation and High Tech High.
Justin Reich, April 7, 2013
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Education Opinion Learning: Hitched to Everything Else in the Universe
How an inquiry into mastery learning explores cognitive science, education policy, sociology, urban planning and a host of other issues.
Justin Reich, March 30, 2013
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