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Looking Back on Three Years of the ConnectED Initiative: Did It Deliver?

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corporations, from Apple to Adobe. According to the fact sheet that the White House recently released, here’s what we know: Adobe has delivered creativity and e-learning software to over 950,000 students and teachers at more than 1,450 schools and launched more than 20 district-wide Adobe & ConnectED programs.

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Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow

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Smart Sparrow’s current platform is built on Adobe Flash, the technology that supports interactive elements in web browsers. Department of Education to improve access to open-licensed educational materials, or OER. Ben-Naim says the acquisition by Pearson could “affect the plan,” which was to build OER content on Smart Sparrow.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

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You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” “Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. Via the Woodbury Bulletin : “District 833, police investigate after student accesses private employee data.” A reminder to avoid Adobe products. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “The New Gold Rush? .”