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Best Vocabulary Apps for Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The inclusion of offline access is a significant advantage, ensuring that learning is uninterrupted even in the absence of an internet connection. Key features like voice search, Word of the Day, integrated thesaurus, example sentences, and audio pronunciations elevate the learning experience.

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Top Trends Higher Education Textbook Publishers Must Follow

Kitaboo on EdTech

Rather than giving out a default collection of chapters in every eBook, let them choose their own learning resources and create personalized learning materials. This chapter-based content selection will enable higher education students to take and combine specific learning content that suits their learning needs.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Larry Cuban on personalized learning : part 1 and part 2. ” It reminded me, not of Carnegie who the article mentions, but of Gates , who initially started funding libraries – public and collective access to digital technologies – before turning to school reform and “personalized learning” efforts.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

. “ Learning Engineers Inch Toward the Spotlight,” Inside Higher Ed claims. ” A data breach at Chegg – more details in the data and surveillance section below. Common App will merge with Reach Higher , a college-access program started by Michelle Obama. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via NPR : “‘Access to Literacy ’ Is Not a Constitutional Right , Judge in Detroit Rules.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Pearson today signaled an increased focus on artificial intelligence and personalized learning with the appointment of former Intel executive Milena Marinova.” 40 Languages.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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

” There is no schooling here, among other things (whereas there was school and access to lawyers in their previous detention facilities). Students Pay The Tab With Their Personal Data.” ” Via Techcrunch : “ Apple adds student ID cards into Apple Wallet to access buildings, buy food and more.”