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What are this year’s top trends at SXSW EDU?

eSchool News

At a high level, this year’s trends represent a human-centered approach to empowering both the educator and student to define their own learning pathway. AI, XR, & Blockchain: A New Era in EdTech. The advancement of emerging technology is laying the foundation for a new age of learning. Learning Science in Action.

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MinecraftEdu Creators Struggle to Find a Second Hit

Edsurge

The company creates a curriculum and lesson plans around each game and offers learning analytics, showing how games are being used. Another 100 schools have purchased blanket subscriptions, which cost schools $1,200 per year, for access to all 50 games on the platform. You wouldn’t need to know the games.

Microsoft 100
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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

Testing, Testing… “ Common Core testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on social media,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. “ Gates Foundation CEO Admits Underestimating Common-Core Challenges.” Upgrades and Downgrades. million total.