A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2018

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. Our learners will need to thrive and survive in a world that is almost impossible to predict thanks to exponential advances in technology.

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EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 2, 2017

More specifically, machine learning has quickly gained the potential to overhaul what educators can accomplish with technology due to how rapidly the field has advanced within the last two years. Yet, using machine learning, a program can assess which questions are similar in meaning (regardless of keywords), and meld them together.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

The company that set the bar for hyping adaptive-learning technology has had to adapt to new leadership and a new business model. We’re at a state where the quality of OER is definitely on the level of content from any publishing company,” claims Dave Hughes, Knewton’s chief product officer in an interview with EdSurge.

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Neo LMS

JULY 18, 2019

Along with concepts like blended learning, adaptive learning and virtual learning, the need to focus on the main character in the learning process came about. This is how personalized learning became the key to every new approach to learning and teaching.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The adaptive learning capabilities and the data safety that Typing Tournament has invested in are also helping to tip the scale for school usage. A fantastic programme that is definitely leading the US market for individuals and is highly utilised in the education system. More on keyboarding. Should you Teach Typing?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Yesterday, the New York-based company announced that Ryan Prichard, who has been with the company since July 2012, most recently as Chief Technology Officer, will assume the CEO position. He claims to be among the first to coin this approach as “adaptive learning.” What’s all the buzz about adaptive learning really about?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

The pace of change, driven predominantly by the rapid encroachment of digital and now AI technologies, has accelerated dramatically. The fast-paced evolution in educational technology and methodologies necessitates a fresh look at what features teachers should exhibit to be effective and relevant in this ever-changing environment.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Microschools have definitely made a mark in the K–12 landscape. When people think of disruptive innovations, they tend to focus on new technologies: personal computers, online video streaming, rideshare apps, etc. In short, minimills used a new technology (electric arc furnaces) to enable a new organizational model.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Are any education technologies, for that matter? But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful. Andreessen’s definition does begin to get at some of the reasons why platforms have been so appealing to investors – ideologically as much as technologically. One might ask, I suppose, if LMSes are platforms.

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MIND Research Institute

JUNE 18, 2020

The Journal of Research on Technology in Education (JRTE) recently published a rigorous study that found students who play ST Math have higher mathematics self-beliefs than non-ST Math students. Rutherford et al, Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2019. Can a game change how you feel about math?

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IAD Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Learning analytics has been a hot topic for a while in the education industry. Not by chance, learning analytics and all its related technologies (measuring learning, artificial intelligence, adaptive learning, personalized learning, etc.) Data : Data is the primary analytics asset.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Alternatively, your child could spend anywhere between one to six days per week at your local Amazon Learning Center—possibly branded to match the local public school district’s name and colors—where they get to choose from hundreds, no, thousands of courses to build a personalized schedule. Department of Defense.

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Saving Socrates

MARCH 19, 2014

And, of course, the educational technology community has now begun to focus on this. Now I have confess, I made a major mistake (ok this is nothing new and definitely not my first nor last) by not taking the full Columbia Readers and Writers Workshop while at TC. I first stumbled on this subject when my first child was born.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2017

See EdSurge’s report on adaptive learning tools including i-Ready in Adaptive Learning Close Up. And he’s definitely not interested in selling to just any bidder. The school gets a yet-untapped wellspring of funding, estimated at close to $100 million in value.

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MindShift

JUNE 29, 2015

In a fast-moving field like education technology, it’s worth taking a moment to take stock of new developments, persistent trends and the challenges to effective tech implementation in real classrooms. This macro trend to shake up typical ways of schooling is opening new opportunities for technology to play an even bigger role in education.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

But they can also be creating learning apps, museum exhibits, or the latest educational toy. My classmates from Stanford’s Learning Design and Technology master’s program have gone on to design for big brands like Airbnb and Google as well as edtech upstarts including the African Leadership University, General Assembly, Osmo and Udacity.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

It’s called the Teaching Online Podcast, or TOPcast , and co-host Thomas Cavanagh says he is driven by his quest to figure out one of the grand challenges of higher education: how to use technology to raise the quality of instruction while lowering costs. There are things that technology can do that humans can't.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2016

But the definition of design is much broader. And they have to do it in an increasingly complex and rapidly changing environment due to globalization, the increasing complexity of modern technology, the rise of online learning, and the economic climate and corresponding demands for higher return on investment on education.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

More instructors are experimenting with adaptive-learning systems in their classrooms. Mark, how would you describe the ideal scenario of how this technology might play out at colleges, and how a student might be helped by AI on campus? It’s a pivotal time for artificial intelligence in higher education.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2016

But without proof, Monroe, vice president of academic innovation and support at Ivy Tech Community College, and her colleagues are searching in the dark to find the right tools that faculty can use to improve learning outcomes for the more than 200,000 students in the Indiana community college system. So much is coming at us,” Monroe says.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

But OER advocates like Allen say the definitions should be simple. Allen: It's one of those cases where definitions really matter. So could there be a future where publishers essentially become adaptive learning software companies? Lang: I really think so, yeah. So what's next?

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Bryan Alexander

AUGUST 17, 2018

Campus Technology offers a nice intro , so I’ll focus here on my very quick responses. ” Depending on how you count instances of the former, I’m seeing that all over the place now, driven partly by excitement over technological possibility and also by growing anxiety over the higher education crisis.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

education technology startups ebbed in 2016, dipping roughly 30 percent in deal volume and value from the previous year. There’s a lot of creativity around targeted vocational programs that deliver a definite salary uplift and expand people’s life options,” he says. Venture capital for U.S.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2018

One text described it as looking into institutional return on investment (ROI) for digital learning. Let me pull out some highlights I found especially interesting for the future of education and technology. tl;dr version: the report finds three benefits for colleges and universities that get online learning right.

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 20, 2016

This post is another reaction paper I wrote for the course I am currently taking, Technology and School Leadership, through the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In a typical teacher’s day, taking the time to learn about digital tools can be a low priority.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2014

In this first installment, software engineer Ben Slivka — inspired by science fiction — dreamed of creating truly adaptive learning software. Definitely wary of spoiling his kids with premature wealth. Blended Learning Computers Technology' CHAPTER 9: Sci-Fi-Inspired Software. Point accepted.

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Bryan Alexander

AUGUST 17, 2018

Campus Technology offers a nice intro , so I’ll focus here on my very quick responses. ” Depending on how you count instances of the former, I’m seeing that all over the place now, driven partly by excitement over technological possibility and also by growing anxiety over the higher education crisis.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

Our guest pointed to a five-page definition of CBE. Before this technology existed, faculty & staff were making modifications manually so automation helps students, and the faculty and staff who serve them,” Long shared. Not everyone in the #DLNchat community was as enthusiastic about the potential of adaptive learning for CBE.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2019

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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ProfHacker

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This post is co-authored with Sheila MacNeill ( @sheilmcn ) is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Learning at Glasgow Caledonian University. She is also the current Chair of ALT (Association of Learning Technology). Definitely. How will the report editors/writers reconcile the key technology trends with the looming challenges?

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 20, 2016

This post is another reaction paper I wrote for the course I am currently taking, Technology and School Leadership, through the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In a typical teacher’s day, taking the time to learn about digital tools can be a low priority.

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Brainscape

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Either way, teaching your kids at home definitely causes a little anxiety in parents who haven’t had to be a part of a classroom in many, many years. Today, of course, we have the benefit of technology so flashcards are next-level effective; in particular, Brainscape’s flashcards! You never signed up for this.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 30, 2023

It might work for some, but definitely not all. Learning is a process, not an event. By providing a variety of learning activities, teachers can ensure that all students have the opportunity to learn at their own pace. Another way to implement pacing in personalized learning is to use technology.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 7, 2019

Without further ado, here are the general directions in which the industry of educational technologies is growing: Adaptive learning and learner-centric education. Phill: The first question is about adaptive personalized learning. As far as adaptive learning goes, it is an approach to provide personalized learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 26, 2020

New technologies have radically changed the world that all of us live and work in across the globe. As times change, many schools and districts are grabbling with what to focus on in an effort to keep up with societal demands, a changing workforce, new areas of study, disruptive technologies, and learners who crave more relevant experiences.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

The tech-wielding entrepreneurial dad and the avante garde, life-hacking mom team-up (you have to) to lead the learning of their own three children using a combination of their personalized attention, and the growth of technology. So self-guided inquiry-based and mobile learning. Adaptive learning apps.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 24, 2017

The applications of AI in education are incredibly various, and will definitely transform how teachers teach and how students learn today. By using technology — maybe an LMS , maybe some other sort of software — teachers will be able to input all the base materials they have on their subject matter. Delivering adaptive learning.

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