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Guest post: Using EdTech and AI to reduce social inequality

EdTech4Beginners

An article on the newspaper “The Independent” in 2017 claims that the gap between the number of students from private and public schools to reach university has never been larger. Educational Technology and Artificial intelligence are two of these tools, and are already being successfully used by Seneca Learning.

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?Places to Go, Mountains to Climb for Edtech in 2017

Edsurge

"Oh, The Places You'll Go" is one of the most popular books by Dr. Seuss. Where do you hope education technology will go in 2017? Oh, The Places Edtech Will Go – loosely adapted from Dr. Seuss by Isabelle Hau, Omidyar Network 2017 should be another big year for edtech Six big trends we expect.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

One of the best books I read this year was Bad Blood by WSJ journalist John Carreyou. DreamBox Learning (adaptive learning): $130 million. DadaABC (English language learning): $100 million. Knewton (adaptive learning): $182.3 Age of Learning (educational apps): $181.5

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

com ) & ( www.bvlp.com ) & ( www.schoolmint.com ) Hero K12 and BV Investment Partners announced SchoolMint will be joining their EdTech Platform. Registration for the course began November 1, 2017. Original reporting features (time spent reading, books read, etc.)

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'The Brave Little Surveillance Bear' and Other Stories We Tell About Robots Raising Children

Hack Education

I delivered this talk today at the NMC Summer 2017 conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sidenote: Someone from the Clayton Christensen Institute recently invoked the history of household appliances in an op-ed for Edsurge , asking “Is Your Edtech Product a Refrigerator or Washing Machine?” Enhance, not replace.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Sante Fe University of Art and Design will close at the end of the 2017–2018 school year. " It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. “Is Your Edtech Product a Refrigerator or Washing Machine?” ” LOL, okay.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Larry Hogan (R) declared via executive order that beginning in September 2017, the Maryland school year won’t start until after Labor Day – a decision that prompted sharp criticism from school leaders, who are accusing Hogan of favoring the tourism industry over education.” Note: just the cover will be education-related.).