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Acceleration Is Better Than Focusing on Learning Loss. This Unique Summer School Shows Why.

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But for all the conversations in the news and on social media, one place we’re not seeing it as much is in schools themselves. As a bonus, these accelerated learning approaches give a lower priority to repetition or “skill-and-drill” uses of instructional technology. Embedding a social-emotional learning lens into instruction.

Learning 211
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The Next Social Contract for Public Education Needs New Terms of Service

Doug Levin

There is every reason to expect that both entrepreneurs and enterprising educators will continue to generate new and compelling ideas about how to effectively address the challenges facing public education through technology, and for this we should remain optimistic and hopeful.

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We Asked Teachers What They Want From Edtech. Here’s What They Said.

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From IBM’s test scoring machines in the 1930s to the Speak & Spells of the 70s, innovators and educators have been trying to improve education with technology for decades. It’s no wonder that only 58% of teachers are comfortable using technology in class. But these efforts have fallen short of meaningfully transforming learning.

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Why the Boldest Ideas in Education Come From Underrepresented Entrepreneurs

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“Transforming misery into agency” is among the visionary goals that co-founder Wisdom Amouzou has for The HadaNõu Collective , which currently operates centers in public high schools that “map authentic experiences to academic standards.” The school will serve 250 students across five centers this fall. WordsLiive.

Education 108
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Take Two: Clever’s Newest Effort to Help Teachers Try Before They Buy Edtech

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There are at least two truisms when it comes to education technology: 1. That gung-ho initiative is something that Mark Racine, director of technology at Boston Public Schools, applauds. With the Clever Library, the company aims to give teachers more agency in finding and trying new products. But it also gives him pause.

EdTech 110
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The End of the Promise of Personalized Learning?

EdNews Daily

This caveat is meaningless to most commercial interests like companies that take advertising for something like soft drinks but will be very important in the education field for learning resources. Anonymized means targeters do not see names but can message/advertise to specific groups of users based on educational interests or needs.

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Big Tech Needs to Treat Our Children Better

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I invest in education technology, but decades before I knew what a venture capitalist was, I was a history teacher in a small town in America’s heartland where I started my school’s first “Internet club.” But 2018 marked an inflection point for education technology that most investors and developers did not see coming.