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Guest Post - How Artificial Intelligence will Empower Future Classrooms

Educational Technology Guy

The rise of AI-powered intelligent tutoring systems According to Technavio, the global artificial intelligence market in the education sector 2016-2020 will grow at a CAGR of more than 39% by 2020. One of the primary factors fuelling this market growth is the adoption of intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) in the learning process.

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Playing Games Can Build 21st-Century Skills. Research Explains How.

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Play, Explore, Study, Build In 2016, two researchers at Clemson University in South Carolina set out to see what the existing research really had to say about gaming’s impact on 21st-century skills. Perhaps the most successful games in the analysis were ones where students had to actually create something themselves.

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The 7 Key Elements of eSpark’s Theory of Learning

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By verbally responding to a prompt, students are able to become the teachers and are much more likely to be able to transfer what they have learned (Rittle-Johnson, 2006). Even when compared to written responses, students of all ages are better able to retain what they have learned when they explain it verbally (Hoogerheide et al.,

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Diversity, Cybersecurity and the Future of Libraries: Day 2 Recap From Educause

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At a conference where educators and entrepreneurs seemed enraptured by the possibility of personalized and adaptive learning technology, Mitra offered this warning: “The problem we have in our system is that we think we can tell the learner where to go.” The answer: nobody. Check out our Day 1 recap from Educause here.

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A Domain of One's Own in a Post-Ownership Society

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@mburtis ’s vision for Domain of One’s Own (and why i say it’s the most important ed-tech we have) #digped pic.twitter.com/KbHu8PZnCb — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) August 12, 2016. What do you own? Your degree? Your ideas? Are you sure? Have you read the fine print of the Terms of Service?

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. billion for 2016, the largest loss in its history. Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It It’s now an LMS too.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

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The company has partnered with advocacy organizations to produce white papers at the 2017 and 2016 Digital Citizenship Summits and provides online monitoring software to schools. A new historical analysis genre and new historical analysis prompts will be available in December 2017 and more will be released in 2018.

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