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Today’s Innovations are Tomorrow’s Practices: Adapting Learning to Meet Students

Digital Promise

When COVID closed the door on in-person schooling in spring 2020, one of the biggest concerns for school districts was how to address the needs of students who experience cognitive learning challenges and/or physical disabilities. Jean Tower, Director of Media and Digital Learning at Needham Public Schools, Massachusetts.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.” But these outlandish claims of a powerful piece of learning software never matched what materialized. CZI took over the engineering of the learning management system from Facebook in 2017.). “In

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