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Smarter Classrooms for Today and Tomorrow

eSchool News

VR and AR can transport students to distant lands, historical events, or even the depths of the human body, making abstract concepts tangible and engaging. Also key to the classrooms of today and tomorrow are support for real-time video conferencing and remote learning platforms.

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Current Trends in Education

eSchool News

Educational Conferences and Events: Attend educational conferences and events, both locally and nationally. These events provide exposure to new ideas and foster collaboration. This data-driven approach supports personalized instruction and helps educators make informed decisions about students’ learning paths.

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Digital Leadership is Not Optional

A Principal's Reflections

Emerging technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality, open education resources (OER), coding, and adaptive learning tools are moving more into the mainstream in some schools. Automation and robotics are already disrupting the world of work, as we know it. How are we adapting and evolving? Have you heard of it?

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Ed-Tech Agitprop

Hack Education

I have never been able to make it to this event -- it's always coincided with the end-of-the-year series I've traditionally written for Hack Education. I did speak, a few years ago, at the OEB Midsummit event in Iceland. I can't say I've ever seen other keynote speakers at ed-tech events get heckled. So they jeered. Why do you?

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Your Syllabus to SXSW EDU 2019 (and Where to Find Us!)

Edsurge

From those, event organizers and the public decided on the roughly 400 sessions that made the agenda. Companies include an AI robot, student incubator and a startup called Pie for Providers. Beyond the Hype: Adopting Predictive Analytics : Data analytics can only be as useful as how well they’re implemented. 12:30 p.m.

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What’s New: New Tools for Schools

techlearning

ADVANCED & MEASURED PROGRESS ( www.advanc-ed.org ) & ( www.measuredprogress.org ) Measured Progress and AdvancED will join forces to form a unique and far-reaching nonprofit educational company focused on data-driven tools for school improvement. The merger will create a $120-million nonprofit organization with 500 employees.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. ” Those “countless needs and niches” can be met thanks to all the data generation and data collection that happens on them. Platforms are “an extractive apparatus for data.”