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Current Trends in Education

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Key points: Current education trends point to personalization and accessibility Keeping up with current trends in education is essential for educators Learn more about K-12 Tech Innovation News In the dynamic landscape of K-12 education, several trends are shaping the way students learn and educators teach.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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. …This is key to its advantage over traditional business models when it comes to data, since a platform positions itself (1) between users, and (2) as the ground upon which their activities occur, which thus gives it privileged access to record them. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?).

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With Flip of a Giant Ceremonial Switch, CMU Starts Effort to Energize ‘Learning Engineering’

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The software tools released at the event are called the OpenSimon Toolkit, and they can help colleges create digital courseware and measure how well their course materials work. He and his colleagues published an academic paper with the finding called “ Learning is Not a Spectator Sport.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via the AP : “A policy that would nearly triple the number of University of California student-athletes guaranteed continued financial aid in the event of a career-ending sports injury received unanimous approval Wednesday from a committee of the university’s governing board.” Or something. Because ed-tech is not science.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Um, they do.) Despite a few anecdotes, they’re really not.).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The program will focus on nonprofits that help refugees, which will be able to apply for fee waivers to access the Coursera course catalog.” The New York Times covers its own recent education event : “Educators Discuss the Future of Higher Education.” The adaptive learning company has raised $4.57