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Lexia Celebrates 40th Anniversary 

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To learn more, visit www.cambiumlearning.com or follow Cambium on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. The Cambium family of brands includes: Cambium Assessment, Lexia®, Learning A-Z®, Voyager Sopris Learning®, ExploreLearning®, Time4Learning®, and Kurzweil Education®.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It A computing platform is the stage on which computer programs can run. They’re amazing.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

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According to the latest jobs report , unemployment in the US is at 4.6%, the lowest since 2007. ” The technology revolution has delivered Google searches, Facebook friends, iPhone apps, Twitter rants and shopping for almost anything on Amazon, all in the past decade and a half. What it hasn’t delivered are many jobs.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Here’s a science textbook I was assigned at his school in 2007. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via George Veletsianos : “A large-scale study of Twitter Use in MOOCs.” Via Campus Technology : “ Harvard Tailoring the MOOC Experience With Adaptive Learning.”