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Personalized Learning, Teachers Unleashed, and a Learning Analytics Partnership: The Story of Fresno Unified

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The focus is on how to engage students meaningfully in learning, and teachers use digital tools as an enabler of that conversation. Through a partnership between Fresno’s PLI team, Microsoft and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the PLI has gone further by incorporating learning analytics for an improvement approach to the work.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 10 Edition)

Doug Levin

Here’s what caught my eye the week of March 6, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 10 Edition). Tagged on: March 10, 2017 State reaches $3.5 Tagged on: March 10, 2017 State reaches $3.5

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15 hot edtech trends for 2017

eSchool News

To get a glimpse into what the next 12 months will hold for everything from professional development to digital learning, and from communication to virtual reality, 15 ed tech luminaries looked back on 2016 edtech trends to help predict what’s in store for 2017. Looking ahead, a renewed focus on energy will take place in 2017.

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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. What are Disruptive Innovations and how do you see them making a big impact on Education this year? Will Learning analytics have a major impact upon Education this year?

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

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Tuniversitiy’s first offering is a book on how to reproduce Williams’ own song, “Happy,” and includes step-by-step tutorials on how students can create the song for themselves within Garageband. Upgrades also include Smarty Ants Español, a program designed to help K-2 Spanish-speaking students learn how to read in Spanish.

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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. How much more can we afford to lose? Technology is addictive, and how does it get more addictive? AI will only further the feelings of isolation.

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A 140-Year-Old School Partnered With a 10-Year-Old School. Here’s What Happened.

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Additionally, NuVu’s learning model has a profoundly empathic dimension: by addressing real-world challenges, students acquire a personal understanding of the world and how they can impact it. NuVu first came on KA’s radar in 2017 when Ian Munro, the Scottish school’s rector, was studying at Harvard. There is no “right” answer.

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