Have educators fallen off the tech bandwagon?
David Warlick writes that the same educators who were all over the Net in the early 1990s are watching Web 2.0 slide on by. Is that a problem?
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Chris Dawson is a freelance writer, consultant, and policy advocate with 20 years of experience in education, technology, and the intersection of the two.
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