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League Districts Take on Major Challenges Together

Digital Promise

— El Segundo Unified (@ElSegundoUSD) October 12, 2018. Digital Promise has launched five Challenge Collaboratives centered on Challenge Map topics: Real World Learning, Assessment Data Interoperability, Computational Thinking Pathways, OER Deeper Learning for NGSS, and Computational Thinking for NGSS.

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Interoperability Boosts the Speed of School Communications

EdTech Magazine

Mon, 06/25/2018 - 12:40. As K–12 institutions digitally progress, slow data sharing between parents, teachers and administrators is leaving all players increasingly frustrated as they are forced to wait for important information sent through what is quickly becoming an outdated system. This is not just a hypothetical example.

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The League of Innovative Schools’ 12 Days of Innovation

Digital Promise

2018 was an incredible year for the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools and Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters). In 2018, we welcomed 12 new districts: Arcadia Unified School District , D.C. Representatives from our 12 new districts and 7 interim districts met at the fall 2018 League meeting in Park City, UT.

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Highlights From a Year of Tracking Future Trends in Education

Edsurge

Another surprise was a turn in public perception of giant technology companies, especially Facebook and Google, as well as Twitter and Amazon. Cathy O’Neil’s criticism of data analytics’ misuse resonated with a large number of people. Decisions about pedagogies and systems, data and platforms may well become more challenging.

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

Edsurge

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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There’s Only One Person Whose Opinion About NC Really Matters

Iterating Toward Openness

Over the last 24 hours there’s been a short Twitter thread about whether or not materials released under a CC license with the NC condition can be used in a college classroom safely. ” Actually, we have data on that. You may protest, “But those data are a decade old! Harold Jarche (@hjarche) September 15, 2018.

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Virtual, augmented, and mixed reality in education: a NERCOMP workshop

Bryan Alexander

Interesting snapshot of VR etc in 2018: Some were doing nothing programatically, but people (faculty, admin, IT, librarians) were curious. They assembled a data workflow: using BioLayout to embed 3d data -> data preprocessing ->3d network reconstruction. — Steve Covello (@idmodule) April 24, 2018.

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