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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

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ALEKS PPL is an adaptive placement solution that assesses what students already know, what they are ready to learn next, and provides students with the opportunity to improve their placement scores through an individualized, adaptive learning path in the ALEKS Prep and Learning Module. TCI BRING SCIENCE ALIVE!

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30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom

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Common Core standards (this one’s not sexy, but few factors impact education more than this index of academic content). Adaptive learning platforms and learning algorithms. Robotics in the classroom. 30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom . Planned obsolescence of mobile technology.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Chalkbeat : “‘ Common Core ’ no more: New York moves to adopt revised standards with new name.” ” According to WCET , “Developing Effective Courses Using Adaptive Learning Begins with Proper Alignment.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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The email, he said, detailed a “Priority 1 Alert” that had been issued by Pearson and the New Jersey Department of Education, regarding a student who had tweeted about a test question on the PARCC — a standardized test based on the Common Core State Standards. Common Core State Standards. But the “spying” has continued.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Chalkbeat : “They rejected multi-state Common Core exams. “Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot ,” says The Wall Street Journal in a story about “Jill Watson” (of course it’s a female name), an automated teaching assistant at Georgia Tech.