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What Education Technology Could Look Like Over the Next Five Years

MindShift

The NMC Horizon report highlights four principles of collaborative learning: “placing the learner at the center, emphasizing interaction and doing, working in groups, and developing solutions to real-world problems.” Access to mobile technology especially has helped students feel comfortable in the role of digital creator.

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A Call For Homeschool 2.0

TeachThought - Learn better.

So self-guided inquiry-based and mobile learning. Adaptive learning apps. Learning simulations. Khan Academy. Learning here becomes less about curriculum and more about possibility. Same with a school or curriculum or assessment. I can see that happening with school. Dosomething.org.

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Adapting to the New Classroom

techlearning

Adaptive learning technology is the new go-to for personalized learning. Diagnostic products and software systems that target specific areas of learning for improvement can help students find success, freeing educators to help every learner reach their personal best within one classroom. Khan Academy ?

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Not Another Dashboard: K-12 Interoperability Efforts Aim to Inform (Not Just Report)

Edsurge

Perhaps we’ve grown too accustomed to paying for purchases with a mobile app, or booking reservations online, or using Google to plan our daily commutes. Can a student’s activity on Khan Academy offer any clues into why he or she did not do well on the problem-solving section of an online benchmark math assessment?

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?Are We Recreating Segregated Education Online?

Edsurge

People can now work through a series of lectures while they commute or complete coursework on a mobile phone between shifts. Increasingly, you can classify online learning initiatives as falling into one of two major camps: Content-Driven experiences emphasize what you’ll learn.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Despite predictions that badges would be the “ new credential ” and that we were looking at a “ Future Full of Badges ,” it’s not clear that digital badges have provided us with a really meaningful way to assess skills or expertise. Indeed, young people prefer learning from YouTube than from textbooks — according, ironically, to Pearson.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The “nation’s report card” is the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP. ” I’m more interested in hearing about segregation and state laws in Mississippi than the adaptive learning software a school is using. MarcoPolo Learning has raised $8.5 ” Oh. million total.