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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

With the help of technology and innovative teaching methods, educators can create a learning environment that accommodates different learning styles and paces. For example, adaptive learning technology can adjust the difficulty of tasks based on individual student performance, providing a customized learning experience.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

According to the latest jobs report , unemployment in the US is at 4.6%, the lowest since 2007. We also see it in many instances of adaptive-learning software. But that figure obscures the fact that some 95 million workers are no longer counted as part of the labor force. We’ve seen this before in the MOOC world.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

But for Thrun, the reference to Uber was not about “choice” but about labor — specifically about building a platform to be used by a precarious workforce, lured into piecework with the promise of a big payout. it's like a Coke bottle falling out of the sky,” he said, apparently referring to the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy. (He

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