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Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow

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The deal marks the latest in a series of acquisitions involving digital courseware, the industry parlance for online products that leverage data and technology to personalize the course instruction and feedback that each student receives. One such provider, Acrobatiq, was acquired in 2018. million in 2018.

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Pearson Signals Major Shift From Print by Making All Textbook Updates ‘Digital First’

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But she’s excited at the possibility that “instead of methodically marching through every chapter, we can analyze data accumulated from students’ responses, and the latest pedagogical research, to pinpoint specific areas of misconceptions, discomfort or where students struggle.” Are students paying the price in terms of their data?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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1, 2018, Eilif Serck-Hanssen will become the for-profit company’s new chief executive officer and Ricardo Berckemeyer will take over as the company’s president. danah boyd has announced that she’ll be stepping down from running her research organization Data & Society. “Blame Big Data.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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hey siri show me a vision of hell made especially for me pic.twitter.com/wbs9E7BuKf — Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) July 19, 2018. Swedish student single-handedly prevents deportation of Afghan asylum seeker by refusing to sit down on flight pic.twitter.com/5YdS7EBF9X — The Independent (@Independent) July 25, 2018.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. So many lessons here about controlling your own data and not relying on free ed-tech products. Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. Via Mindshift : “What’s At Risk When Schools Focus Too Much on Student Data ?” ” Data and “Research” Education Week has released its annual report “ Technology Counts.” ” Hackers, man. public schools.” public schools.”