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Woot Math: Adaptive learning for fractions and decimals

iLearn Technology

The Woot Math system works on the web, iPads, or Chromebooks seamlessly…it truly is a great option for any classroom! Sign up TODAY, Woot Math is totally free for the 2015-2016 school year! It is super user-friendly, and gives teachers the ability to customize for each student in the class as a starting point.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

Here I’d like to identify trends from 2015 which seem likely to persist or grow over the next year. Primary and secondary schools are a battleground between iPads and Chromebooks, it seems. 2015 had a martyr for textbook costs, but I haven’t seen this inspire any movements towards cheaper texts.

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The Learning Innovation Cycle: How Disruption Creates Lasting Change

TeachThought - Learn better.

See also, trends in education for 2015.). It’s not clear the way that iPads will change a classroom, or adaptive learning apps should change a curriculum–or the idea of a curriculum, for example. It can, but there are other disruptors that can lead to innovation that have little to do with either.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

The company sold The Financial Times and its stake in The Economist in 2015, for example. And I’ll note here because it suits my argument about platforms so neatly: Pearson announced last year that it was leaving the learning management system market. Students will receive iPads.

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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. Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids have iPads. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Online Grade Portals.

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Education Technology and the Ideology of Personalization

Hack Education

Despite the press coverage – the funding announcement was made on Oprah – things didn’t really go as planned , as journalist Dale Russakoff has recounted in her 2015 book The Prize. IBM released a Watson-powered iPad app. Since then, IBM has moved to commercialize Watson, particularly in healthcare and education.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The governor, a Republican elected in 2015, announced on Friday that he had disbanded the university’s current 20-member Board of Trustees. weeks in 2015.” billion it agreed to pay Apple/Pearson for iPads, but what do I know). The adaptive learning company has raised $4.57 Cogbooks has raised £1.25