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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. We are also able to offer immediate feedback and a more productive way of learning from their mistakes. The feedback from teachers has also been great.

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Cengage, McGraw-Hill Agree to Merge to Become 2nd Biggest US Textbook Publisher

Edsurge

The news, first reported by The Wall Street Journal , would create the second-biggest U.S. Cengage is now betting its digital business on an annual subscription that gives students unlimited access to all of its digital textbook materials, along with online homework tools and study guides. Last week, Cengage reported $1.5

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This Math Program Helped Students Blow State Test Scores Out of the Water

Edsurge

Some highlights: Fourth graders at Salt Creek improved their CAASPP scores by 137% of the state average in the 2016/2017 school year—their first year using the platform—and by 172% the following year. Fourth grade ELLs at both schools grew their CAASPP scores by 252% of the state average in the 2017/2018 school year. Source: Levered.

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This Math Program Helped Students Blow State Test Scores Out of the Water

Edsurge

Some highlights: Fourth graders at Salt Creek improved their CAASPP scores by 137% of the state average in the 2016/2017 school year—their first year using the platform—and by 172% the following year. Fourth grade ELLs at both schools grew their CAASPP scores by 252% of the state average in the 2017/2018 school year. Source: Levered.

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The 2018 Horizon Report has appeared, thanks to EDUCAUSE

Bryan Alexander

The 2018 Horizon Report , started by the New Media Consortium in 2017, was completed and published by EDUCAUSE this week. My perspective is based on many years of working on and with Horizon Reports. It was really important to us that it have not just the look, but that it also read and felt like a Horizon Report.”.

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How Instructional Technology Coaching Can Help Teachers Create Powerful Learning Experiences

Digital Promise

“Technology use must, first and foremost, be designed to support learning goals, not the other way around.”. Ottenbreit-Leftwich in their 2013 study of authentic technology-enabled learning, highlights the main challenge coaches face when trying to support teachers using technology. This insight, penned by Peggy A.

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2018 Halftime Ka’Ching Report: U.S. Edtech Raises $739M in Venture Funding

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This year’s first-half funding total marks a lull from the same period in 2017, which totaled $887 million spread across 58 deals. The full-year tally for 2017 reached $1.2 There are newly-funded curriculum and courseware services, games, adaptive learning platforms and study tools. By contrast, just one U.S.

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