eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

These lessons provide trans-adapted learning, a teacher-redesigned dashboard, enhanced reporting, and updated auto-assign features to support teachers. HMH’s connected approach brings together best-in-class solutions in ways that are uniquely integrated to empower teaching and learning. Best-in-Class Connected Curriculum.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

Businesses and organizations are providing free access to digital tools and apps for teaching and learning (see THE Journal’s ever-growing list of Free Resources for Schools During COVID-19 Outbreak ). In fact, there are so many digital tools, apps, and online learning resources being shared, some educators are feeling overwhelmed.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The Frayer Model asks students to take a vocabulary word, define it, provide examples, use in a sentence, and provide synonyms and antonyms. Adorable animal characters will guide children through lessons, and the adaptive learning path will customize their experience to help them master skills. Mark your calendars! 3, 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The change is part of a nationwide pilot program Walsh joined this year, one that could indicate just how deeply and how quickly the personalized-learning trend will penetrate the average classroom. Many watched instructional videos or worked with adaptive-learning software that adjusted lessons based on each student’s proficiency.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

” Among its cargo: a Facebook / Internet.org satellite that was supposed to provide Internet access Facebook to African countries. Here’s a different example of ownership (and the surrender of ownership) of students’ stories via the Star Tribune : “Retired Minn. So unbelievably gross.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot. and Facebook Inc.

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Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

And there are plenty of lessons for us to learn about technology-enhanced learning from Sea Monkeys. What are MOOCs, for example? What are virtual learning environments? And that contention raises some serious issues for all the ed-tech equivalents to the ads in the back of our industry’s comic books.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

It’s another great example of why people who call for “ Uber for Education ” are probably pretty shady. Via The New York Times : “ Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share.” ” Also via Techcrunch : “ Facebook brings Messenger Kids to Fire tablets.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

” Via Techcrunch : “ Facebook launches a digital literacy library aimed at educators.” DreamBox Learning has raised $130 million from The Rise Fund. The adaptive learning company has raised $175.6 This is where all the press releases and press release rewrites go. million total.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Facebook’s Plans to “Personalize” Education. ” A personalized news feed, for example. .” ” A personalized news feed, for example. And “personalization” is the underlying promise of the new education software Facebook is itself building. Personalized ads.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

On video games , for example – yes, that old canard. The “ invisible ” “adaptive learning” company has raised $38.7 ” Via Politico : “ Facebook ’s next project: American inequality.” Venture Capital and the Business of Education. million total.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

” It’s full of examples of lecturing, but now that they’re recorded as videos somehow it’s innovation. ” Not sure how popular Facebook and Summit Public Schools ’ “personalized learning” platform is, for what it’s worth. ” Daniel Willingham on learning styles. .”

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Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

This is a good example of why we should be more critical when we hear about schools that boast everyone was admitted to college – at what cost? Via Patheos : “ BYU-Idaho Professor Fired After Defending LGBT Rights in Private Facebook Post.” .” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ U.

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