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What?s New: New Tools for Schools

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EDMENTUM EXACTPATH ( www.edmentum.com/products/exact-path ) Edmentum Exact Path utilizes adaptive diagnostic assessments paired with targeted student learning paths to ensure academic growth in K-8 reading, language arts, and math. Bubble Bot features a bubble-blowing robot or a Fan of Fortune, a prediction game.

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Education Technology and the New Behaviorism

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It’s a reaction, I’d say, to the current obsession with artificial intelligence and a response to all the stories we were told this year about robots on the cusp of replacing, out-“thinking,” and out-working us. There are promises about “ brain zapping ” to speed up learning. The research is iffy at best.).

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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There are a variety of reasons for this: language barriers, lack of Internet access, incompatible devices, lack of training. In 2011, Barber went to work for Pearson as its Chief Education Advisor, continuing his advocacy for competition, data collection, measurements, and standards-based reforms. Brain Training. You're sexist.

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