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Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD

The CoolCatTeacher

She has been instrumental in the design of software using artificial intelligence for data-driven decisions in all content areas and the suite of services to facilitate the implementation of those products. Robert has held various leadership and instructional roles in the field of education, with a focus on online and blended learning.

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Just who are the people behind today’s educational software?

The Hechinger Report

In this first installment, software engineer Ben Slivka — inspired by science fiction — dreamed of creating truly adaptive learning software. CHAPTER 9: Sci-Fi-Inspired Software. February 2005: Bellevue, Washington. But he left in June 2000 for reasons that only a software purist can understand.

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Study: One-to-One Laptop Programs Improve Student Learning

Doug Levin

Finally, the authors themselves caution that the findings of this study should not be considered generalizable to deployments of tablets, desktops, smartphones or other classroom technologies, as those technologies have different affordances.

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Can a Small Fund Called Dunce Capital Make Smart Bets in Education?

Edsurge

A software engineer by trade, he worked at Oracle in the 1980’s before co-founding an internet advertising company that sold for $750 million in 1999—right before the dot-com bust. Rocketship established itself as a testbed for piloting instructional software built by startups and established companies alike.

Education 101
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Carnegie Learning Gets a Makeover After Private Equity Investment

Edsurge

Carnegie Learning currently offers online math courseware for middle, high-school and college students, along with accompanying print textbooks as part of its blended-learning programs. In addition to math products, Carnegie Learning will now also encompass existing products under New Mountain Learning’s portfolio.

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Not all towns are created equal, digitally

The Hechinger Report

Related: Blue-collar town leads Rhode Island’s tech-assisted learning revolution. She uses a software program popular among architects and designers. Third grade students at Meeker Elementary school share an iPad in a blended learning class in Greeley, Colorado. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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The Riddle Of Meaningful iPad Integration

TeachThought - Learn better.

Fast forward to 2012 and the Tabula Project was borne out of a simple premise: Tablet computers hold enormous potential as lower-cost, touch-friendly alternatives to desktop/laptops in schools, but they lack the local networking tools that we’d leveraged so effectively for instructional purposes back in 2005.

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