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K-12 Educators and Administrators: Share Your Ed-tech Pilot Approach

Digital Promise

Our Improving Ed-Tech Purchasing study found that districts often use “ pilot tryouts ” to make decisions about learning technology tools. “We’re not getting the results we’re hoping to see from our digital content in middle school social studies and science. So we want to try something new.”

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Teaching in the Era of Bots: Students Need Humans Now More Than Ever

Edsurge

Relationships underpin all of the “Big Six” experiences, which include “a professor who made me excited about learning” and “professors who cared about me as a person.” But students need to know, from the beginning, that this personal assistant is a robot and that their instructor is a human.

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How AR and VR Prepare Students for Jobs of the Future (and Save Districts Money)

Edsurge

So, we did an internal study of what is out there, what would be a good fit, what kind of industry-supported curriculum was available, what gives us the most utility. The same could be said with the robotics pieces and parts—before they would often disappear and vanish. Research and case studies about using AR/VR in education.

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Personalized Learning “Twister”: A Future of Learning Live Demo in Dallas

EdNews Daily

The new paradigm allows for students to be placed at appropriate points for them on the predetermined highways of learning, with customization byways as needed. This breaks up the traditional age/grade groupings to make way for dynamic groupings based on individual progress. Auto-Cohorting.

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Identifying the Top Four Challenges in K-12 Education

Digital Promise

Across the country, schools are adopting new approaches to teaching and learning in order to prepare students for life in a technology-rich world. She says students must learn the process for problem solving, which requires more time asking questions before jumping to solutions. Why is this important?

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

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Users can also use the NEO advanced features such as automation, gamification, learning paths, and competency-based learning directly from the Windows App. Students will be able to publish, share, and play games with friends on any platform from console to mobile, study games that have been runaway hits, and more.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Inside Higher Ed reports that “ National University is working to create a personalized education platform that combines three of the buzziest innovations in higher education – adaptive learning, competency-based learning and predictive analytics for student retention.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.