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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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For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” Via The Hechinger Report : “Most immigrants outpace Americans when it comes to education – with one big exception.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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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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Ed-Tech in a Time of Trump

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And the word “intelligence” is now used – oh so casually – to describe so-called “thinking machines”: algorithms, robots, AI. You can’t opt of having your cafeteria purchases, Internet usage, dorm room access, fitness center habits tracked. Read her reporting from the Nuremberg Trials.

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Department of Education missed a deadline to delay state authorization rules are incorrect, a department spokeswoman said Thursday,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Perhaps we can learn a little about the folks who still do. . “Assertions that the U.S. ” (State and Local) Education Politics. ” Ah yes. ”).

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Via Chalkbeat : “ Betsy DeVos ’s first Detroit visit featured Girl Scouts, robots, and talk of beluga whales.” Steve Kolowich is such a great reporter. Via Techcrunch : “Thousands of academics spurn Nature ’s new paid-access Machine Learning journal.” “Soon.”

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. “High school students will be allowed to carry mace in the 2016–2017 school year after the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education agreed to remove prohibitive language and amend its policy,” the Salisbury Post reports. ” “ Smartwatch cheats force Thai students back to exam halls,” the BBC reports.