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Choosing The Right Adaptive Learning Tool

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Find out how adaptive learning solutions are helping teachers target instruction and use data more effectively—and how they’re helping students learn. EDGENUITY’S UPSMART ( edgenuity.com ) Valerie Wirth’s math students in the Amphitheater School District in Tucson, Arizona, learn using UpSmart.

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ChatGPT in Schools: Friend or Foe? 

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

This (initially) Elon Musk-backed adaptive learning project has become the poster child of the AI renaissance, spearheading a mass adoption of a technology that is still early enough in its cultural infancy for people to have legitimate concerns about its effect on the world.

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Guest post: Using EdTech and AI to reduce social inequality

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Because of that, it is important to find new tools to try and close the social gap between pupils of different socioeconomic status. Educational Technology and Artificial intelligence are two of these tools, and are already being successfully used by Seneca Learning. Using EdTech and AI to tackle the problem.

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Chromebook Vs iPad Chart

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The decision to integrate either iPads or Chromebooks into educational settings is not just about choosing a piece of technology; it’s about selecting the right tool to enhance your teaching and optimize students learning. They have superior multimedia capabilities – great cameras, audio, and video editing tools.

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Do It Right the First Time: How to Maximize Your Edtech Investment

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From cutting-edge computing and cloud services to data-driven instruction and adaptive learning, K-12 edtech solutions are abundant. With a hands-on comparison, the team found some systems lacking in reliability, interactivity and integrability, while others clearly demonstrated better functionality, sustainability, and ease of use.

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US Edtech Funding Already Nears $1 Billion in First Half of 2019

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By comparison, in the first six months of 2018, companies raised $750 million across 62 deals. Rounding out the podium for top dollars raised in 2019 with $90 million is Examity , a Boston-based provider of exam proctoring tools used by colleges and universities, assessment groups, professional certification boards and employers.

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Paying to Turn in Homework? ASU Prof's Viral Email Raises Questions About Online Textbook Model

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Goegan also argued that he was forced to fail 30 percent of his students, which he said university officials wanted so that an adaptive-learning project being developed for other sections of the economics course would be made to look good by comparison. The faculty is using it to help the student learn.”

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