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Audrey Watters, Hack Education, Jun 15, 2022

Audrey Watters announces that she's ceasing to write on Hack Education and is leaving the field of ed tech, this in the wake of One Good Company being acquired by Amplify. "It's time to move on to something else. I cannot, I will not be your Cassandra any more." Personally I'm more jaded by the news from Lumen Learning, because that's what startups do, they get acquired and provide an 'exit' for their founders. Over on her blog she writes, "Some folks will say yes, the technology is bad — if we just had better technology then everything'd be okay. Others will say that it's our educational practices that suck — if we just had better pedagogies, then everything technological would fall into place. Both camps still insist that the future is 'digital,' and as such, are trapped in a story that will never get them to 'better'."

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