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Modern Classrooms and Personalized Learning Are the Perfect Pair

EdTech Magazine

Modern classrooms are open and flexible and have writable surfaces, modular furniture, one-to-one devices, hands-on learning with makerspace activities and robust broadband connectivity. Everything is built toward an open environment and geared toward collaboration,” says Scott Harris, Neosho (Mo.) School District’s technology director. “We

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Education Is the New Healthcare, and Other Trends Shaping Edtech Investing

Edsurge

Since 2017, investment has accelerated with $14 billion allocated, according to research firm HolonIQ. These tools can amplify feelings of loneliness and serve as a platform for cyberbullying. HolonIQ estimates that global spending on digital education tools surpassed $150 billion last year, and will double by 2025.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Congratulations, STEM folks and learn-to-code evangelists, for being featured in President Trump’s list of his 2017 accomplishments. Via Education Week : “ Trump Signs Orders on Rural Broadband Access.” Blackboard’s Chief Financial Officer, Lisa Mayr, is also leaving the company. . You must be so proud.

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The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

To the entrepreneur who wrote the Techcrunch op-ed in August that ed-tech is “ 2017's big, untapped and safe investor opportunity.” NovoEd co-founder Amin Saberi was replaced by Ed Miller, a former Blackboard exec. Blackboard replaced its CEO. ” You are a fool. A dangerous, exploitative one at that.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via WaPo’s Valerie Strauss : “ Trump ’s rather weird meeting with the 2017 Teachers of the Year.” ” Via The Washington Post : “ Education Department relaxes financial aid process in the absence of IRS tool.” Inside Higher Ed examines the challenges facing LMS provider Blackboard.