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Education Technology Trends for 2017: An Interview With Martin McKay.

EdTech4Beginners

Martin also serves in working groups to advise the US Department of Education on the accessibility of education materials, and Universal Design for Learning. Also, I think a really cool thing which is allowing kids to travel all over the world, and out of this world is Google Expeditions. Learning analytics and big data are huge.

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4 K-12 Ed Tech Trends to Watch in 2018

EdTech Magazine

From learning analytics tools providing students with instant feedback on their work to virtual reality facilitating field trips to faraway lands to 3D printers filling makerspaces, the classroom looks quite a bit different than it did just five years ago. Learning Analytics Tools Provide Real-Time Feedback.

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Otus - LMS, Data Management and Assessment Management, all in one easy-to-use product

Educational Technology Guy

Follow me on Twitter and Google+. This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy. Feel free to share summaries and links to these articles, but do not copy and repost entire article.

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?Updates, Upgrades and Overheard: What Was Unveiled at ISTE 2017

Edsurge

After making a few rounds in the behemoth expo hall, we’ve rounded up the ones that made our ears perk up and what edtechies should look out for: Big news from the blue chips OGLING GOOGLE UPDATES: With over 70 million G Suite for Education users, Google’s education tools dominate U.S. classrooms. MICROSOFT CLASSROOM IS NO MORE.

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The Dangers of AI (and it’s not cheating) – SULS0190

Shake Up Learning

– Elon Musk, 2017 This week’s episode begins with a clip from an interview with Elon Musk in 2017, where he shares his thoughts on the future of AI. A quick Google search will reveal many other warnings and predictions he has made about AI. Providing personalized student learning is wonderful, but at what cost?

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3 lessons from data on how students are actually using educational apps and software at school

The Hechinger Report

The company hired Ryan Baker, director of the Penn Center for Learning Analytics , and another data scientist to mine the data and create a national snapshot of technology use for the 2017-18 school year. Among the top one were Varsity Tutors, LearnZillion, Wikipedia, Brainingcamp, Google Classroom and TED-Ed.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

In his 2017 book Platform Capitalism , Nick Srnicek posits that platforms are poised to become the fundamental business model of our digital world – key to the new economy, clearly, but also key to political and social systems (and what these will become under the control of these powerful technology companies). If so, what are they?