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AI, Personalized Learning Are a Dynamic Duo for K–12 Classrooms

EdTech Magazine

New school or district wide initiatives, including new software. . Thank you, adaptive software. . Adaptive Software Refines Personalized Learning. Currently, the primary ways adaptive software adapt are with content, assessment , and sequence. . This is where adaptive software and AI fall short.

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Instructure Co-Founder Goes After Digital Courseware With His Next Edtech Startup

Edsurge

That inspired him to start Instructure in 2008, best known for its Canvas LMS. (He This time around, he’s targeted another behemoth in the education industry: publishers and their homework software. Pearson spokesman Scott Overland pushed back against the idea that publisher software is outdated.

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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

That is, we are less likely to use ed-tech to rethink assignments or assessments than we are to use ed-tech more closely scrutinize student behavior. For a long time, arguably the best known anti-cheating technology was the plagiarism detection software TurnItIn. Anti-cheating software isn't just about plagiarism, of course.

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New Ownership for an LMS Giant: Private Equity Firm to Buy Instructure for $2 Billion

Edsurge

when it comes to the LMS software that serves as the virtual classroom, online gradebook and other functions used in just about every college course these days. Instructure is currently a public company, and its leaders say a move to private ownership will allow it to invest more in its software and potentially make more acquisitions. “We

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10 things teachers can do today to prepare students for the future

eSchool News

In 2008, I read Clayton Christensen’s Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns. They are hoping to teach their subject area while enhancing lessons, developing assessments, and engaging students in a more personalized manner. Yet, in a majority of areas, the infrastructure doesn’t cooperate.

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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy

Hack Education

For a long time, arguably the best known anti-cheating technology was the plagiarism detection software TurnItIn. So they turned some of their research on pattern-matching of brainwaves to create a piece of software that would identify patterns in texts. Anti-cheating software isn't just about plagiarism, of course.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

“ FY 2008 $267,500,000 (President Bush’s request: $0). National Educational Technology Trends Study: Local-Level Data Summary (SRI International, 2008). Effectiveness of Reading and Mathematics Software Products: Findings from the First Student Cohort (Mathematica Policy Research, 2007).

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