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4 lessons learned about AI in 2023

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Jobs’ launch of the iPhone in 2007 led to a revolution in mobile computing. This revolution hit the education industry in earnest in 2011, with the launch of the Chromebook to compete with Apple’s iPad. In reflecting on this year of AI, I, too, have been connecting the dots.

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Need a Substitute Teacher? Try an ELF Instead

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In 2007, a trio of Harvard researchers found that “even 10 days of teacher absences can have an impact.reducing, for example, students’ math achievement by 3.3 The ELF empowers students to set the pace and path of their own learning. This happens in a blended learning environment called the Independent Digital Learning Center (IDLC).

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What Happened to the ‘$100 Laptop’?

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There was a huge “give one, get one” campaign in Christmas 2007 and again in Christmas 2008 where people could buy one of these laptops for themselves and pay twice as much for it, and one got sent overseas, many of them ended up in Haiti. So if we didn't have cloud computing, Chromebooks still wouldn't be very useful.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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Microsoft : “Microsoft launches Intune for Education to counter Google’s Chromebooks in schools,” Techcrunch reported in January. “Now Any Organization Can Create Content for LinkedIn Learning,” Edsurge reported in June. ” “ Apple’s Bid To Reclaim The Classroom From Chromebooks May Be Too Late.”

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Rangatiratanga: How Tapping Into New Zealand’s Indigenous Concepts Sparked New Educational Gains

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They will mihi (welcome) you formally in Te Reo (Maori, New Zealand’s first language) and proceed to inform and charm you over 20 minutes via an interactive presentation about their competency in digital learning. Started in 2007, the program now serves 3,500 students, over 80 percent of whom come from Maori and Pasifika families.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.” Bridge International Academies was founded in 2007, promising to bring quality education to parts of the Global South. The LMS isn’t the only platform in education to be sure.

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