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Teachers Are Turning to AI Solutions for Assistance

EdTech Magazine

“These intelligent tools can adapt pacing based on the student’s ability … and provide targeted, corrective feedback in case the student makes mistakes, so that the student can learn from them,” states an eSchool News report released earlier this year. SIGN UP: Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks!

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Mark Cuban, ECMC Lead $1.8M Round for Cluster to Develop Industrial Tech Talent

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“If you look at our investors, it’s clear that online education is on our roadmap, and corporate learning and development are there as well,” says Taylor. She previously worked in online education marketing, helping places including Kaplan, University of Phoenix and 2U recruit students. Taylor’s made matches happen before.

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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

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Maia Sharpley’s career in education includes serving in executive positions with the New York City Department of Education, Kaplan and Charter Schools USA. Since 2018, she has been a partner at Learn Capital, a venture capital fund focused on the global education sector.

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The Case for Learning Engineers in Education

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This piece was written for The White House Symposium on the Future of Education R&D and Digital Learning, which took place on Oct. This means we need to think about learning engineering thinking—practical use of science at scale—and we’ll need more learning engineers who are prepared to help us.

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Digital Equity: It’s More Than Just Student Access

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Creating authentic learning opportunities to equip a diverse body of students to identify and solve the world’s problems will require risk and change. Many educators are looking beneath the surface inequities of devices and connectivity to consider how digital tools can revolutionize learning and address even deeper inequities.

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Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Some Thoughts from ASU+GSV

Hack Education

At ASU+GSV, I heard plenty of invocations about “digital natives” and “learning styles.” ” There was all the usual talk of job-stealing robots and the “ jobs that don’t exist yet.” ” “Society is evolving at a faster and faster rate.” ” “We know it matters.”

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(This Is Not a Morphology of) The Monsters of Education Technology

Hack Education

Learning objects. Learning portals. Portals to learning object repositories. Perhaps the most powerful of zombies in education technology is the student information system and its monstrous offspring the learning management system. ” “Whoa I learned to code.” The zombies seem to wither and die.