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The End of the Promise of Personalized Learning?

EdNews Daily

In other words, the benefits of target marketing, also known as profiling-and-pushing-messages for helpful learning programs for users could be enormous. Saving Personalized Learning. The digital mechanisms are not dissimilar from buying distributed advertising as the key word tags and software mechanisms are the same.

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Study explores use of digital tools in out-of-school programs

The Hechinger Report

The project surveyed almost 250 Chicago organizations offering about 1,000 programs that use digital media tools and technologies, which they defined as hardware, software and other digital tools and resources. While digital technology has become ubiquitous in most communities, there is a hierarchy in how it is used for learning.

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2017’s Ho-Hum, Unremarkable, But Too-Often Ignored Lessons in Education Technology

Edsurge

Anyone interested in improving schooling through digital tools has to distinguish between what the media hypes and what policies are actually adopted. District purchases of hardware and software continue to go up. There’s a difference between the promises of “personalized learning” and the policies that school leaders enact.

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

Edsurge

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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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).