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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

Working as an entrepreneur, executive, philanthropist and investor over the past few decades, at some of the very organizations Watters bemoans, I’ve had a unique vantage point for observing numerous successes, failures and—most importantly—long-term trends that make me optimistic about the next wave of education innovation.

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What do at-risk students, English language learners and adult college students have in common?

The Hechinger Report

The New York Times has a new education supplement, called Learning, and The Hechinger Report is collaborating with the Times to produce Bulletin Board, a collection of noteworthy ideas and trends in education that will appear on page 2 of the section, which will come out four times a year. Highlights from Bulletin Board follow.

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Change Agents: Tech & Learning?s Most Influential People in EdTech In 2018

techlearning

The second a new trend changes, our generation is the first to know about it, before adults. The shift has been away from the device as the catalyst and towards pedagogy and lesson design enhanced with technology, with a new refreshed focus on personalized learning for the district’s 589,000 K–12 students.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“ Artificial Intelligence: Could emerging technologies ‘humanize’ teaching & learning? “ Will these four technology trends change education in India? Via Edsurge : “ VR Could Bring a New Era of Immersive Learning. .” ” asks CoSN. ” asks Livemint. ”). .”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

As I’m working on that series, I can see how certain “trends” in ed-tech are being carefully cultivated by ed-tech companies and the ed-tech press. One of those “trends” is surely “character development” (a.k.a. “ social and emotional learning.”) “grit” a.k.a.