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How digital tools and AI can enhance social studies

eSchool News

From interactive simulations to online databases of primary sources, these tools offer educators a wide array of resources to enrich their curriculum and foster student learning. With the rapid advancement of technology, digital tools have emerged as powerful assets in achieving this goal.

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Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow

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Smart Sparrow , which provides course-authoring tools for faculty and instructional designers to build adaptive courseware, has found a new home in a much bigger nest. Already, the Sydney, Australia-based company has pulled back on its social media presence. Called Aero , the platform has been in the works since 2017.

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Creating Future Ready Schools and Classrooms

Tom Murray

Many are also taking advantage of the hundreds of free tools found in the Future Ready Dashboard. In a Future Ready district, curriculum, instruction, and assessment are tightly aligned, redesigned to engage students in 21st Century, relevant, technology-empowered, deeper learning. Personalized Professional Learning.

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

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A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy. He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education.

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Your Syllabus to SXSW EDU 2019 (and Where to Find Us!)

Edsurge

From facial-recognition cameras to web and social media filtering software, surveillance technologies are finding their foothold in schools across America. Ostensibly these tools are for the greater good—keeping kids safe. But how much surveillance is acceptable, and what are the implications for students’ privacy rights?

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What to Identify Before Personalizing Learning

edWeb.net

How students show what they have learned and celebrate their learning journey is as important to the personalized learning process as engagement, interest, voice, and choice. With their interests identified and supported, students get into the flow of learning and see the purpose of what they are doing in class.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

We still see the majority of campuses failing to formally recognize professors’ digital work. Yet we also see academic deans and provosts showing more interest in digital learning than their faculty. Personalized learning is winning a growing amount of attention, but no off-the-shelf tech solutions.

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