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10 signs that you may be missing opportunities with your school’s technology integration

Dangerously Irrelevant

Teachers are gravitating toward technologies that allow them to tightly control the student learning experience (e.g., Silent work alone on ‘personalized,’ adaptive learning software modules is a dominant modality for students. A greater emphasis on filtering and blocking than on equitable access and usage.

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Interactive eBooks: The Future of Digital Textbooks Unveiled

Kitaboo on EdTech

Benefits of Interactive Digital Textbooks Enriched Learning Experience Personalized Learning Opportunity Accessibility and Portability Collaborative Learning Sustainable Mode of Learning III. Future Trends in Interactive Digital Textbooks Virtual and Augmented Reality Artificial Intelligence Mobile Learning IV.

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10 Steps to Create Interactive K12 Learning Modules

Kitaboo on EdTech

Embrace Adaptive Learning Think back to your K12 experience. With interactive learning modules, this discrepancy can be drastically reduced. Adaptive learning is the process of adjusting the content and difficulty level of the module on the basis of an individual student’s needs.

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Hoping to Spur 'Learning Engineering,' Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software

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In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code available for anyone to see and modify.

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PROOF POINTS: Free, no frills programs lead the class in new federal study of remote learning

The Hechinger Report

None uses especially sophisticated algorithms to tailor the instruction to each student, known as “adaptivelearning, but they do give instant feedback, letting students know what they’ve gotten right and wrong. “We All three were developed at universities and have no flashy graphics, animations or games.

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Knewton, HP team up on personalized print solutions

eSchool News

Personalized print learning solutions could help close the gap between online, print worlds by letting publishers and teachers tailor materials for students’ individual needs. Not every student has access to a computer at home or in the classroom, and some simply prefer print materials.

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Why the World’s Youngest Continent Got an Edtech Accelerator

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These services include access to an in-house “technical team to help support our startups,” Martin adds. Their capabilities are often described as a halfway between basic and smartphones.) Each participating startup will receive roughly $40,000 in cash (U.S. dollars), along with additional support that Martin values at another $40,000.

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