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Why ‘Black Box’ Software Isn’t Ready to Teach College

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That’s the argument of Candace Thille, who has a love-distrust relationship with adaptive software. Specifically she worries that some companies have made their products a “black box” that professors and researchers can’t understand or control. That was way back in 2001. Can you talk more about that?

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CatchOn Joins the Education Networks of America Family of Companies

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JUNE 26, 2018 In a move that enhances its mission of supporting education institutions and libraries, Education Networks of America ® (ENA) today announced that Dallas-based education technology company CatchOn, Inc has joined the ENA family of companies. The solution is available directly through CatchOn or through ENA.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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Herbert Simon, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and learning engineering who died in 2001, is immersed in his office at Carnegie Mellon University. If few students answer the question correctly, the software can flag the professor, or the textbook author, to consider revising the content to make it clearer.

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Helping Teachers Reach Every Student

EdNews Daily

Editor’s note: This is one in a series of profiles about the men and women who are creating today’s EdTech companies. The method teaches children to read by providing training and direction instruction materials for teachers and individualized software instruction for students. By Kenna McHugh.

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Not enough students have mentors, and we must change that

The Hechinger Report

Startups and established tech companies are providing a crash course in entrepreneurship, sending engineers and designers into public schools to mentor students. Working in the gig economy as a contractor with a ride-share company precludes the kinds of deep relationships that lead to professional advancement.

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A Billionaire Benefactor, a Disputed Ballot Issue and a Community College Turnaround

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Texarkana College adopted new enterprise software and other edtech tools like an early-alert system, but technology was only one aspect of the school’s effort. Things changed in 2001, when then-president Carl Nelson died unexpectedly, leaving the campus and its leadership in shock. It was just like everything was fine and dandy.”

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Hundreds of thousands of people could lose their legal status. One hopes to graduate with his college degree first

The Hechinger Report

Jose is 21-years-old, a junior studying software engineering. Jose is majoring in software engineering because he’s always loved computers and math, and he wants a career that can provide for himself and his mom financially. He had an internship at the tech and manufacturing company 3M. He and his mom are in the U.S.

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