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

Edsurge

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. The following year, Knewton was bought in a deal that has become a poster child for education technology hype. One such provider, Acrobatiq, was acquired in 2018.

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EdSurge Recommendations for What to Read, Watch and Listen to Over the Holiday Break

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It deftly, artfully captures just how inundated children — specifically, three girls over the course of one year — are these days, thanks to social media and all the other byproducts of carrying a small computer in your pocket everywhere you go. It would also, of course, improve their lives.

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#CoronaVirus, class closures and communication

Learning with 'e's

When once distance learning courses were frowned upon and considered to be inferior to traditional campus based degrees, in recent years this opinion has been completely overturned. Share ideas using social media and other online discussion forums. Many others have achieved similar awards at a distance.

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Flogging the Dead Horse of RSS

techlearning

Really Simple Syndication for me was the poster child technology for the era where the early internet began to shift from a place where only certain folks with technical skill and software could contribute to the web to a place where user-generated content was now dominant and more importantly, anyone could easily interact with that content.

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Mobile gives the edge

Learning with 'e's

Most significantly for those who are immersed in schools, colleges and universities - mobile technology is disrupting education. Secondly, mobile technology is disruptive because it encourages creativity. Potentially, with new AR and wearable technologies emerging, we will be able to make a record our every minute of our lives.

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Schools struggle to help students return to class after a mental health crisis

The Hechinger Report

The BRYT program, which was founded and pioneered in two Boston schools in 2004 by the nonprofit Brookline Center for Community Health, has emerged as a successful model for helping kids re-enter school after a mental health crisis. Social media helped exacerbate emotional problems for Tashin, 17, a junior at Rindge & Latin.

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Experiences in Self-Determined Learning: Moving from Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0

User Generated Education

was often the best choice given the resources and technologies of that time in history. This essentialist, instructivist, pedagogical teaching model is still the most predominant model in current Kindergarten through College public education, even in these modern times of unbiquitous information and technology. Education 1.0:

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