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Against the 3A’s of EdTech: AI, Analytics, and Adaptive Technologies in Education

ProfHacker

I can see evidence around me that AI (Artificial Intelligence), Analytics and Adaptive Learning are being pushed in the education field, but I have a strong aversion to all of them, mainly on ethical grounds. So give them teaching assistants or do more peer assessment. Plagiarism-detection tools are no better.

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Digital Learning’s Pioneers Are Cautiously Optimistic

Edsurge

The small amount of research to date on how adaptive learning technology impacts student outcomes is inconclusive. April 2016 study from SRI Education found that students in adaptive courses performed slightly better on assessments than those in a traditional lecture. Students gived these course packages mixed reviews.

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Newsela – Robust Education Technology for Reading Comprehension Skills Development

EmergingEdTech

Adaptive Platform Delivers Reading Materials at 5 Different Reading Levels, With Built in Assessments How would you like to be able to give students reading assignments focused on current events that. Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

million in venture capital from high profile names like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and from firms active in ed-tech investing such as Learn Capital. It may be the hardware or the operating system (OS), even a web browser or other underlying software, as long as the program code is executed in it. The company has raised some $77.5

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Top 9 Benefits of Online Publishing for K12 Curriculum Development

Kitaboo on EdTech

eBooks Are Easy to Create and Distribute With online publishing , many publishing software have also emerged. In a cloud-based software the contents of the book are stored online, in one place. It offers the flexibility to incorporate multimedia elements, interactive exercises, and adaptive learning tools.

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With Flip of a Giant Ceremonial Switch, CMU Starts Effort to Energize ‘Learning Engineering’

Edsurge

Then, he toggled the cardboard lever and declared open a new website , one that gave away software that took more than $100 million in grant funding to develop. It was an unusually theatrical moment for a gathering to announce the release of software tools to help professors improve their teaching.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. In 2018, Mozilla said it would retire Backpack, its platform for sharing and displaying badges, and would help users move their badges to Badgr, software developed by the tech company Concentric Sky. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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