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

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But it’s become increasingly unclear if online learning is living up to its promise for students, as concerns persist over quality, inequitable disparities in digital-learning participants and outcomes. Researchers from three universities and Sesame Workshop offer a primer on what teachers should know. 12:30 p.m.

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IBM supercomputer Watson to help advance preschool education

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Plan to develop adaptive learning products and platform for use at home and in schools. Sesame Workshop and IBM announced a collaboration to use IBM Watson’s cognitive computing technology and Sesame’s early childhood expertise to help advance preschool education around the world. Dunn, CEO of Sesame Workshop. “A

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The 3 Biggest Remote Teaching Concerns We Need to Solve Now

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Other programs provide a standalone workshop or course about education technology. Accessibility The fast move from print-based to digital materials and from in person learning events to digital learning events can create additional barriers for disabled students.

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Technology Tools Used in Teaching and Learning

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Educational software, including interactive simulations and virtual labs, brings abstract concepts to life, enhancing experiential learning. Furthermore, adaptive learning platforms, like Khan Academy and Duolingo, cater to individual student needs, offering personalized learning paths and immediate feedback.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.” IBM boasted a partnership with the Sesame Workshop to build “ cognitive learning ” apps. Because we have five orders of magnitude more data about you than Google has.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The LA Times asks , “ In this digital self-help age, just how effective are MasterClass ’s A-list celebrity workshops?” Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “ Adaptive Learning Products Gain Ground in K–12, Market Survey Finds.”