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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

These advancements have given rise to the cloud-based classroom, a dynamic and accessible learning environment that epitomizes educational innovation. Through my journey in the EdTech world, I have seen first hand the transformative power of educational technology and its vast impact on students learning. And guess what?

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Carnegie Learning Gets a Makeover After Private Equity Investment

Edsurge

We’re trying to take what we do well in cognitive science and adaptive learning, and bring that to the content that New Mountain has.” Also staying the same is Barry Malkin’s role as CEO of Carnegie Learning, as he will keep that title after the merger. Expect Carnegie Learning to add more edtech tools to its portfolio.

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The 7 Key Elements of eSpark’s Theory of Learning

eSpark

With eSpark’s focus on direct instruction, students are provided multiple opportunities to ensure that the skills they are learning are explicitly taught. Furthering this, both time on instruction and student engagement have produced a significant, positive association with achievement in math (Bodovski et al., 5: Practice Leads to Mastery.

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Three Thoughts on the Treatment of EdTech in the 2015 EdNext Poll on School Reform

Doug Levin

Since at least 2007, Education Next has commissioned an annual public opinion poll to help inform the K-12 education policy discussion in DC and the states, as well as to suggest lines of inquiry for further research. Source: Education Next – Program on Education Policy and Governance – Survey 2015 [pdf]. So it goes.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

VR appeared in some of the earliest Horizon Reports for example, with the 2007 report positing that virtual worlds would be adopted by higher ed institutions within two to three years’ time; funnily enough, the 2016 report offered the same outlook: we’re still two to three years out from widespread adoption of VR.

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