eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Additionally, personalized learning can be fostered with adaptive learning software, tailoring instruction to individual student needs. Technology significantly benefits K-12 students by offering diverse tools that cater to varied learning styles and enhance the overall educational experience.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 24, 2017

From self-driving cars and grocery shopping without cash registers ( Amazon Go ), to algorithms that detect diseases and speech recognition that allows us to have conversations with robots (Apple’s Siri, for example) artificial intelligence is everywhere. Delivering adaptive learning. Not even with ten.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Adaptive learning platforms are gaining prominence as personalized becomes more critical for student success. These platforms use artificial intelligence to tailor lessons based on individual student progress and needs, making for a more effective and customized learning experience. How has technology impacted K-12 education?

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Neo LMS

JUNE 11, 2019

When software or hardware is installed, take the time to train your staff on it. Whether it’s an interactive board, robotics resource, parent communications app or a school LMS , ensure that all staff are clued up and understand the benefits to ensure that processes – both in the class and behind the scenes – run as efficiently as possible.

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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. Automation and robotics are already disrupting the world of work, as we know it. How are we adapting and evolving?

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

While rough " deepfake " videos have been around for several years, the proliferation of video manipulation that appear real enough to fool viewers really shifted into high gear in 2019 with the launch of multiple AI open-source software and mobile apps. (On Can a robot be whimsical? This will be kludgy and awful , I thought.

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Hack Education

JUNE 15, 2017

But now “software is eating the world,” as venture capitalist Marc Andreessen wants to us all to believe. The robot, or rather a seemingly living automaton in “The Sandman,” veers towards “das unheimlich.” Maybe they’ll change how we think about robots. We will be raised by robots.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The next big move came when instructional designers, as part of their skillset, turned to digital authoring systems, software introduced to stimulate engagement, encouraging virtual students to interface actively with digital materials, often by tapping at a keyboard or touching the screen as in a video game.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Kibby also criticized Ferreira’s highly abstract and “complex” public statements about Knewton’s technology (referencing one NPR interview in which the former CEO called Knewton “ a robot tutor in the sky ”). Knewton’s pitch is that its mix of OER and an adaptive-learning system will set it apart.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

I shared the stage that day in Iceland with a person who gave their talk on how, in the future, robots will love us -- how they will take care of us in our old age; how they will teach our classes; how they will raise our children. Robots aren't coming for your jobs, but management may well be. Why do you? Why the rush to mechanize?

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Adaptive learning technology is the new go-to for personalized learning. Diagnostic products and software systems that target specific areas of learning for improvement can help students find success, freeing educators to help every learner reach their personal best within one classroom. Google Classroom ?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

From facial-recognition cameras to web and social media filtering software, surveillance technologies are finding their foothold in schools across America. Companies include an AI robot, student incubator and a startup called Pie for Providers. Ostensibly these tools are for the greater good—keeping kids safe. Tuesday, March 5, 11 a.m.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Thomas Cavanagh, vice provost for digital learning at the University of Central Florida You're talking about enhancing human conversations with software robots. Like using adaptive learning, for example, to personalize the experience for students at scale. But we've got 68,000 students here.". How does that work?

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

Software & Online 3DBEAR AR INNOVATOR PROGRAM ( 3dbear.io/product/ Teachers can create transformational learning experiences for students by joining 3DBear’s AR Innovator Program. The tool is ideal for differentiated learning, literacy, English-language learners (ELL) or Special Needs instruction. Illuminate 11.0

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

The technologies built by these companies span a wide gamut of buzzwords (adaptive learning, artificial intelligence, gamification) but will be integrated with TAL’s online offerings. Sinovation also funds companies in other technology sectors including robotics and Big Data.) TAL has already directly funded a handful of U.S.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Software & Online ALMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies has announced it is allowing any SQL-based business intelligence tool, such as Tableau and Jaspersoft, to access data from its modern, student information system and learning management system.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

While machine learning and automation are obviating the need for learners to memorize content and develop routine skills, current edtech solutions still focus on helping learners develop these capabilities, he says. Rise of the robots Siemens has both an academic and an industry perspective on digital learning.

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MindShift

AUGUST 11, 2016

It looked at college courses that are using so-called “adaptive learning” software as an enhancement to blended courses. NPR Ed has covered adaptive learning before. ” The results in this study were a bit more prosaic. .” “I asked, ‘Are you going to keep going?

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Software & Online ACCELERATE LEARNING STEMSCOPES SCIENCE ( www.stemscopes.com ) Accelerate Learning announced a new platform using the best of CNN’s digital content to create a new science education product. Illuminate 10.0 v6.3), at the annual Bett Show in London. The curriculum will launch at Laureate this August.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Although sometimes talked about as a “movement,” Mozilla’s Open Badges Project was really more of a technical specification, one that was transferred from Mozilla to IMS Global Learning Consortium in 2017. And “free” doesn’t last. Without revenue the company will go away.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2018

Billion Federal Block Grant Makes Ed-Tech Training Higher Priority Than Software, Devices.” Here’s Edsurge : “Udacity VP of Learning: ‘We Never Start Anything Out of Academic Interest’ ” Here’s Techcrunch : “Udacity introduces real robots and virtual words to help students build skills.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

And “personalization” is the underlying promise of the new education software Facebook is itself building. Basecamp is essentially a learning management system (with the adjective “personalized” appended to it). “A truly terrible deal,” says Cathy O’Neil , author of Weapons of Math Destruction.

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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. This is ed-tech!).

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

From the press release : “ Knewton Launches Alta, Fully Integrated Adaptive Learning Courseware for Higher Education, Putting Achievement in Reach for Everyone.” ” There is no mention here about mind-reading robo tutors in the sky , but there are some questionable claims about what the software can do.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Parla.ai – “No need to spend money on teachers – I’ll help you learn English effectively and for free!” “This Machine Learning-Powered Software Teaches Kids To Be Better Writers,” Fast Company claims. ” Exclusive!

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” According to WCET , “Developing Effective Courses Using Adaptive Learning Begins with Proper Alignment.” ” Via Getting Smart : “ Virtual and Augmented Reality in Personalized Learning.” ” Tom Vander Ark lists “ 15 Dimensions of Personalized Learning.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

” “ School Shooting Simulation Software (and the Problem with How People Define ‘Ed-Tech’)” by me. The Telegraph on TurnItIn : “New university plagiarism software to be launched in crackdown on ‘contract’ cheating.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. million total.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

“The San Francisco-based software company will continue a four-year partnership with San Francisco Unified School District. ” More on ed-tech funding via Education Week’s Market Brief : “Self-Paced E-Learning Market Evaporating, Report Finds.” Robots probably won’t take your jobs.

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

.” Gotta love a quote like this, from a story in Edsurge profiling McComb, Mississippi ’s Summit Elementary School: “We are learning how to mitigate between policy and trying to be as innovative as possible without breaking state laws.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Oh. No neoliberalism here. Move along.

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” “Mixing Automation and a Human Touch, New Software Helps Keep Students ‘ On Task ’,” says Edsurge. “ AI Learns Gender and Racial Biases from Language” says Jeremy Hsu in IEEE Spectrum. The adaptive learning company has raised $16 million total.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

The company: RIB Software SE. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. DreamBox Learning has raised $130 million from The Rise Fund. The adaptive learning company has raised $175.6 ” The official: Steven G. Swant, executive vice president for administration and finance. More via AJC. million total.

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