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In Search of OER’s Future and Edtech’s Missing Evidence at SXSW EDU

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Looking at those two girls making out in the doorway again, I thought, why can’t I be as confident as they clearly are,” Tim Manley, a former New York City high school teacher, said in an opening keynote session, to lots of laughs, as he recounted his humbling, trying first-year teaching experience.

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An Education ‘Intrapreneur’ on the Difficulties Innovating in a Conservative Industry

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In industry, you saw big titans falling to smart, high-potential young people with ideas. The bane of my existence in high school was being told, "You have so much potential. It became clear to me that those in public sector, in state and local government, in higher ed, and in K-12 had potentially a very different role.

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