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TenMarks Shutdown Leaves Teachers Wanting, Competitors Circling

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They’re definitely not ideal replacements in terms of what we were looking for,” he says. (Some teachers already use Freckle and Khan Academy on their own.) Curley says they decided on a combination of IXL and DreamBox and have been ramping up with those products in recent months. But we were spoiled because we really loved TenMarks.”

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October 24 - Ed Tech News, Our Weekly Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

of Text-Messaging at School A Big Step for Gesture-Based Learning? Hopefully, that''s what students remember and not the rude or snarky comments that friends may leave as pseudo-definitions!) A newly released report from Georgetown University''s Center on Education and the Workforce looks at the future of STEM-related jobs.

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4 Ways AI will be a great teaching assistant

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The applications of AI in education are incredibly various, and will definitely transform how teachers teach and how students learn today. Delivering adaptive learning. Adaptive learning takes personalized learning on a deeper level. All STEM subjects are obviously easy to automate.

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Why Google Maps—not Netflix or Amazon—Points to the Future of Education

Edsurge

What they mean essentially is a platform that can use big data to deliver the right learning experience at the right time for each learner. By definition, data is backward looking. Adaptive learning companies haven’t shied away from the analogy either, as descriptions of themselves as “ a sort of Netflix for learning ” are not unusual.

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WHAT’S NEW

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TryEngineering Together partners with corporations to match company employee volunteers with students in grades 3-5, particularly those in economically disadvantaged communities, in 1:1 “eMentoring” relationships to create safe, powerful STEM learning experiences.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.” News/Raytheon STEM Index recorded a slight rise in hiring, education and general interest in technology and engineering over last year, while math education and general interest in science declined. ” Funding and Acquisitions (The Business of Ed-Tech).

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.” And everyone clicks and rages and snipes all over again.

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