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Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

Because there was never a scam in education technology that was left untried, let me predict here that sometime over the next decade or so a startup will proclaim that it can use full genome scans to assist, support, or otherwise supplement education programmes. Meanwhile, ever-quick to jump on a straw man, the learning styles sceptics will be the first to proclaim that there is no link between a student's genome and direct instruction methods. You heard it here first.

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