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The Future Is Adaptive: An Interview with TrueShelf’s Shiva Kintali

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It also sparked his belief that textbooks could evolve from something static into more fluid resources that adapt to students’ readiness levels. TrueShelf is aimed at giving students, teachers and parents an adaptive learning platform that intelligently automates this entire process. How can an adaptive learning approach help?

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Heard, Overheard and Announced at ISTE 2016

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CONFUSION AROUND “OPEN”: While Amazon references its platform as “open,” a few questions arose during ISTE as to what it actually means to have a fully-open ecosystem. As such, whether these platforms can refer to themselves as 100% open is up for debate. See two sides of the argument here and here.). WHAT ARE TEACHERS EXCITED ABOUT?

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Part 4: Over 35 Formative Assessment Tools To Enhance Formative Learning Opportunities

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

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Nevertheless, computer science education, along with STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) continued to be promoted this year, often framed as something students should pursue instead of “ liberal arts.” “Everyone should learn to code.” “Everyone should learn to code.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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But for Thrun, the reference to Uber was not about “choice” but about labor — specifically about building a platform to be used by a precarious workforce, lured into piecework with the promise of a big payout. it's like a Coke bottle falling out of the sky,” he said, apparently referring to the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy. (He

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