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Biometric Tech Can Track How Well Students Are Paying Attention

EdTech Magazine

It’s the natural next step in the move toward personalized learning , in which technology tailors information and lessons to fit students’ knowledge and abilities. A school might use data to optimize the best times for individual students to study. But it could also use that same data to hold students back who aren’t studying enough.”.

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15 hot edtech trends for 2017

eSchool News

They can be something everybody uses; that’s how 2012 became the year of the MOOC, and why virtual reality will no doubt be widely cited as the trend of 2016. Here’s what they said: 2016 was The Year of Video. By Stephen Downes, National Research Council. Now there are different ways things can be a ‘trend of the year’.

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The Histories of Personalized Learning

Hack Education

Or “personalized learning” can mean that students have a say in what they learn – students determine topics they study and activities they undertake. That is, through monitoring and feedback, through automated assessment, and through the programmatic presentation of new or next materials to study.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Thiel was one of the biggest financiers of Ron Paul's super PAC in 2012. ” @14prinsp @KateMfD @audreywatters @gsiemens VC-mediated "consent" for academic studies "Incorrect Response!" ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. .” Presidential Campaign Hellscape.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

But the struggling sector’s political giving is down since peaking in 2012,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” Via Reuters : “ Children’s brains undergo noticeable changes after just one season of football , even if they were never diagnosed with a concussion , according to a new imaging study.”