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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. 2011) contend, engage in “an orchestration…a curricular dance (more like a ballet) [adaptive teachers] responsive[ly]teach…and with the slightest change in the instructional ecology of the classroom, change their position in order to support student learning” (p. Madda et al.,

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Jeff Bezos Wants to Go to the Moon. Then, Public Education.

Edsurge

While Google, Microsoft and Apple have been pursuing their ambitions in K-12 and higher education for more than a decade, Amazon has mostly remained at the sidelines. These learning centers look less like classrooms and more like co-working spaces, with lounges, group meeting rooms, individual study spaces, playgrounds and makerspaces.

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How AI Will Save Education

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

A quick Google search resulted in no immediate hits of others writing such an essay. For the entire text of this example lesson plan, click here to view as a Google Doc.). A decade ago, I was a high school English teacher blissfully naive to what radical changes were coming thanks to edtech. I thought I could easily stump ChatGPT.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow.

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What’s At Risk When Schools Focus Too Much on Student Data?

MindShift

Check out the “dashboards” inside programs like Google Apps for Education, or freestanding gradebook apps like JumpRope, or ClassDojo, focused on behavior. Companies like Google pledge not to track the content of schoolwork for the purposes of advertising. Software also collects information on students all by itself.

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Classroom Design Trends: Update Classroom Layout to Boost Engagement

ViewSonic Education

A landmark 2012 study found that classroom design alters academic progress over a school year by 25%. Educators are embracing the need to adapt learning spaces. One, the flexibility to deliver adaptable, active learning spaces. Google Classroom integration makes it even easier to educate tomorrow’s citizens.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

DreamBox Learning (adaptive learning): $130 million. DadaABC (English language learning): $100 million. Knewton (adaptive learning): $182.3 Age of Learning (educational apps): $181.5 DreamBox Learning (adaptive learning): $175.6 Zuoyebang (tutoring): $350 million.

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