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INTERVIEW: Digital learning trends that are reshaping EdTech

Neo LMS

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. When you go to Twitter, you don’t see every single Twitter’s feed in the world.

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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. Twitter chats have increased from a handful to now hundreds happening on a weekly basis. Leadership is leadership ladies and gentlemen.

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Can Competency-Based Education Demonstrate Mastery Across a Lifetime? #DLNchat

Edsurge

The Twitter chat started by first defining the buzzwords at the center of our discussion. Our guest pointed to a five-page definition of CBE. Not everyone in the #DLNchat community was as enthusiastic about the potential of adaptive learning for CBE.

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30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom

TeachThought - Learn better.

To push it further, one definition of disruption might be a bottom-up cause that substantially effects the ecology it is a part of (e.g., Adaptive learning platforms and learning algorithms. First, some quick clarification so that we have a common language. Rapid change in the demands for media forms (e.g.,

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Reflections on Being Part of the NMC HE Horizon Report Expert Panel

ProfHacker

Last October, I had written a highly critical (aka a bit of a rant) blog post about one of their publications which got a bit of traction in the twitter-sphere. Definitely. In my case it was through direct contact. So I presume that’s how I made the cut. Just shows you ranting can pay off. Would I do it again?

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A Call For Homeschool 2.0

TeachThought - Learn better.

Please share in the comments or via Twitter. ”. For context, we need to go a little father back, to the piece last week on Wired– The Techies Who Are Hacking Education by Homeschooling Their Kids –that is getting a lot of run on twitter recently. So self-guided inquiry-based and mobile learning. Learning simulations.

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Education Technology and the Ideology of Personalization

Hack Education

” I’ll discuss some of the competing definitions of what “personalization” might mean, but in this case, it’s the emphasis on working “at your own pace” on school assignments. A student working on a science assignment, for example, may choose to create a project using video, text or audio files.