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Age of Learning’s Latest Is a $100 Million Educational Game

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Learning activities in Adventure Academy (Screenshot: Tony Wan) The curriculum, built by a team of more than 40 experts, covers roughly 100 topics across English language arts, math, science and social studies subjects. Most of the content is aligned to state and national academic standards for grades 3 to 6, according to the company.

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Game On: Kahoot Snaps Up DragonBox for $18 Million for Its First Acquisition

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In addition to those consumer offerings, DragonBox has been piloting and developing full math curricula for use in schools in Finland, France and Norway, where the company is based. The program includes tablets and apps, along with print workbooks, lesson plans and physical manipulatives aligned to national academic standards.

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

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In the interest of helping other companies and school districts enable extraordinary teaching and learning at scale, we’ve highlighted the three main findings—and some solutions—that have come from these conversations: 1. Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards.

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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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7 Shifts To Create A Classroom Of The Future

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What are students learning, why are they learning it, and what are they doing with what they know? In short, the shift from purely academic standards to critical thinking habits supports personalized, 21st century learning through a preceding shift from institution to learner.

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Where in the World Is Planet3? An Educational Gaming CEO Seeks His Second Act

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White says developers often wrestle with building a product that’s fun and engaging or a product that’s more direct in addressing a district’s academic standards. Are we building a comprehensive curriculum, or are we building games?” A further challenge awaits those who try to sell into schools.

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20 Questions Every Parent Should Ask Teachers

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Until parents have a better understanding of what pure academic work looks like–from the content to the assessment to the reporting–every single bit of this is on the shoulders of teachers. What academic standards do you use, and what do I need to know about them? What learning models do you use (e.g.,