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How one reporter latched onto the edtech backlash

NBC News’ Tyler Kingkade has always been an interesting presence on the education beat, and lately he’s become even more so.

Over the past six months, Kingkade has written roughly a dozen stories about the growing concerns about social med...

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In defense of education technology (& the original EdSurge)

It’s hard to think of someone better than Tony Wan to talk to about the current edtech backlash. First, he was a startup founder. Then he covered ed tech at EdSurge, the site that chronicled the rise of technology in schools. Currently, he’...

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How ISTE turned EdSurge into slop

Editor’s note: Ed-tech pile-on, Friday’s subscriber-only Secret Bonus Section, can now be read by all subscribers.

Back in January, during my first semester in the classroom, I walked up to a table of seventh-graders hunched around a Chrom...

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Summer Edtech Pile-On

Above: If there was any doubt about the 2026 anti-tech backlash, the just-released ‘Toy Story 5’ features a cute electronic tablet who plays the villain in the story.

EDTECH BACKLASH: SUMMER EDITION: The main events in edtech this week wer...

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Summer Edtech Pile-On

In this week’s Secret Bonus Section: Tech fears dominate the news, the latest ‘Toy Story’ installment, and the New York Times goes all in on AI.

Above: If there was any doubt about the 2026 anti-tech backlash, the just-released ‘Toy Story...

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