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What If Your Co-Teacher is a Computer?

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

As I see it, such platforms fall on a spectrum, and for our purposes, can analogously be compared to in-the-flesh educators: Platform as Specialist : This is an adaptive learning platform (like Lexia Core5 or DreamBox ) that teaches discrete skills, usually in response to pre-assessed learning gaps.

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13 Ways Education Could Change In The Next 13 Years

TeachThought - Learn better.

This could also be accomplished through adaptive learning software, smart apps, and a blended approach to learning that mixes precise decoding instruction driven by personal learning algorithms, mixed with “human” teaching of the art and science of media design. ” (1). See also, “ Chloroforming the Unit.”).