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The EdTech Primer

This is the wiki for The EdTech Primer, a project which aims to create a short guide to the latest research in teaching and learning for people creating educational technology. The wiki exists to collect and discuss the articles in the Primer.

If you have been invited to contribute, please visit the For Contributors page for help and guidance on what and how to write.

We have a long List of Articles, some ready for review, some in progress and some which have not yet been claimed by contributors.

What Every Techie Should Know About Education

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -- H. L. Mencken

In March 2012, Audrey Watters wrote a blog post titled The Audrey Test: Or, What Should Every Techie Know About Education?, in which she pointed out that most of the people in Silicon Valley who are starting ed-tech companies (or funding them) don't actually know much about teaching and learning. The goal of this project is to fix that by producing a short guide to the core concepts that someone really must be familiar with to take part in a grown-up conversation about education and technology. Putting it another way, someone who has read this guide should have a comprehensive (albeit shallow) knowledge of the educational landscape---there shouldn't be any glaring unknown unknowns in their understanding of the subject.