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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

Edsurge

To date, our education systems sit atop a cultural assumption—that information is scarce. Our higher education system formed around libraries. Our primary and secondary education systems formed around teachers imparting knowledge. Education is now a high-growth market that combines attributes of consumer and enterprise software.

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What the World Can Teach the US About Education Technology

Edsurge

China’s Education Modernization 2030 Policy and Ten Year Development Plan for ICT and Education 2010-2020 are among government initiatives named that intend to improve the country’s education in the long run. Connection to other systems of these proprietary models could be costly, time-consuming, imperfect, or impossible” in the U.S.,

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Riverside Insights Acquires Aperture Education

eSchool News

Based on the CASEL TM framework, the DESSA assessment system provides an in-depth, comprehensive view of student social and emotional skills and is entirely strength-based. This system enables education leaders to make strategic, data-based decisions about SEL within their organizations.

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Pearson’s Former Product Chief Reflects on the 4 Megatrends Shaping Global Education

Edsurge

Since then, I’ve built award-winning educational CD-ROMs, led the development of formative assessment, curriculum management, and student data systems like Schoolnet and Powerschool, and most recently, managed strategy for Pearson’s $6 billion global product portfolio as its chief product strategy officer. Which brings me to.

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Why it matters that Americans are comparatively bad at math

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Reba Saldanha/AP There are deep shortages of workers in information technology fields, according to the labor market analytics firm Lightcast, which says that there were more than 4 million job postings over the last year in the United States for software developers, database administrators and computer user support specialists.

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10 Ways Interactive Touch Screen Displays Improve Education

ViewSonic Education

Add collaboration software and students can cast and share content from their seats. By 2030, 30 to 40 percent of jobs will require strong social-emotional skills. Like captions, text highlighters and text-to-speech software. Plus easy-to-use content sharing software. And readily available response systems.

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How Much Artificial Intelligence Should There Be in the Classroom?

Edsurge

The company’s co-founder, Derek Li, said during a keynote that replacing some teaching functions with AI-powered software would supercharge the country’s education system. in AI technology by the year 2030, so there is almost a Sputnik-like push for the tech going on right now in China. It’s vision felt unusually utopian.

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