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From Mexico to China: Why the World is Interested in the United States Edtech Market

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Jamie Najera Jamie Najera, an administrator at Colegio Nexus School in Monterrey, Mexico, traveled about 300 miles this week to attend the International Society for Technology in Education ( ISTE ) conference, where he hoped to find new technologies to support his students. “We You know education is not a big business in Mexico. “In

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Indeed, according to one story in The Atlantic , a school district in Colorado opted to do away with parent-teacher conferences entirely, encouraging parents instead to simply check online to see what their children were up to. He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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He believes the future of education means all STEM, no arts and no humanities. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s New Strategy Takes Inspiration From Netflix – and LinkedIn.” Adeptemy , an adaptive learning company, has raised $3.48