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CTU And UMUC Collaborate on Adaptive Learning and Everyone Benefits

Edsurge

Sharing data, best practices, learning maps, and survey results has moved the needle on adaptive learning forward at our schools. Below, we focus on the joint work of CTU and UMUC, which, along the way, have discovered a common passion for using digital tools to promote student learning. Uniting Around Adaptive Learning.

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DON’T MISS IT: Teachers Leading Teachers Online Conference Starts Thursday

The CoolCatTeacher

July 16-20, 2015 (Live and Video Recordings Available). Friday, July 17, 2015. 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Beth Hammett – The Future of Education: Adaptive Learning in the 21st Century Classroom. 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Royan Lee – Sketchnoting Like It’s 2015. Friday, July 17, 2015.

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Woot Math: Adaptive learning for fractions and decimals

iLearn Technology

Sign up TODAY, Woot Math is totally free for the 2015-2016 school year! How to integrate Woot Math into your classroom: To begin with Woot Math, decide how you will use it in your classroom. Do all of your students have access to a technology device?

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Common Sense Education Resources from ISTE 2015

Graphite Blog

Available online or as an app, learn how to use this new student-guided interactive with students. Spark teens’ interest in digital citizenship through an inquiry-based, project-based learning program with Digital Bytes. And learn how to use CueThink to make math collaborative and social.

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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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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

Edsurge

Enuma $4 million (A) 2015 TAL Education, Softbank Ventures Korea Epic! million (Seed) 2015 Sinovation Ventures Ready4 $8 million (A) 2016 TAL Education, Yongjin Group, ZhenFund Securly $3 million (Seed) 2013 Sinovation Ventures, ZhenFund Swing Education $7.8 Wonder Workshop , which develops robot toys that teach kids how to code.

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Personalized Learning: Exploring the What, Why and How

Reading By Example

The challenge is teaching students how to take these disparate pieces of information and skills, analyze data to make complex decisions, and innovate when a solution is not apparent for a problem. Age levels, discipline and digital access also matter when deciding how to incorporate blended learning in the classroom. Hackett, S.,