Finding ‘Personalized Learning’ and Other Edtech Buzzwords on the Gartner Hype Cycle

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Finding ‘Personalized Learning’ and Other Edtech Buzzwords on the Gartner Hype Cycle
Michael B. Horn, EdSurge, 2017/01/04
This is an odd list. It's useful to debunk the buzzwords, but this item seems to endorse some questionable ones. Let's go through the list:

• personalized learning - is nearing Gartner’s peak of inflated expectations - yes, that seems right. But not simply among the "chattering classes" (whatever that means; I think it's a dog whistle saying "hey, I'm a Tory, listen to me"). More...