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Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow

Edsurge

Already, the Sydney, Australia-based company has pulled back on its social media presence. On its website , the company claims it has more than 700 institutional customers across the K-12, higher education and corporate learning space. One person who will not make the move is Dror Ben-Naim, the founder and CEO of Smart Sparrow.

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Clearlake Capital-Backed Discovery Education to Acquire DreamBox Learning? 

eSchool News

together with its affiliates, “Clearlake”), today announced it has agreed to acquire DreamBox Learning® , a PK-12 education technology provider serving more than 6 million students and 600,000 educators nationwide. DreamBox Learning’s current investors Elliott Investment Management L.P. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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How digital tools and AI can enhance social studies

eSchool News

From interactive simulations to online databases of primary sources, these tools offer educators a wide array of resources to enrich their curriculum and foster student learning. Social studies education serves as the cornerstone for cultivating informed and engaged citizens capable of understanding the complexities of the world around them.

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KyEdRPG, Part One: Site Launch Announcement!

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

This is Part One of a three part series to kick off a new website, KyEdRPG , and how role playing games can positively impact student learning. I have certainly expressed my passion for game-based learning several times in prior Edtech Elixirs entries. In this entry, we discuss the "grand opening" of the site itself.

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Guest Post: Raising Expectations and Addressing Inequities in Edtech

Digital Promise

As a white educator engaging in anti-racist efforts, one of the most frustrating things I have seen in my 15-year teaching career is schools and districts purchasing costly adaptive learning programs that require rapid, singular responses from students, and dedicating tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of devices to delivering these programs.

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Creating Future Ready Schools and Classrooms

Tom Murray

How can schools and districts systemically create a vision of teaching and learning that’s personal, authentic, relevant, and harnesses the power of technology? FRS) , is helping thousands of schools create these types of learning experiences for kids. Personalized Professional Learning. Budget and Resources.

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ASU Agrees to Independent Investigation of Its Online Textbook Practices

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And he said he and other professors were told to fail at least 30 percent of students, a move that would set a baseline against which to measure a separate adaptive-learning experiment championed by the provost, Mark Searle. Goegan’s email went viral and led many students across the country to hail him as a hero on social media.