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Los Angeles School District Launched a Splashy AI Chatbot. What Exactly Does It Do?

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While many publications wrote about the announcement at the nation's second-largest public school, details about what the $6 million system actually does have been thin. So what, specifically, does the system do? It is an enhancement.

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Gaming the System: EscapEDX

Knowledge Avatars K-12

And we run our companies like this. And we're now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make. All higher-level thinking skills are difficult to assess. It's not just creativity that the education system kills. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity.

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EdTech Company ChalkTalk Earns Funding to Help Shape The Future of Teaching

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Mohannad then used his experience scoring perfect scores on the SAT I and SAT II to write the first English language learner SAT Prep Book and bootstrap his first education company prior to ChalkTalk from $300 to a franchise operating across 3 countries by the time he was a senior in college. To learn more, visit www.floridafunders.com.

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PROOF POINTS: Controversies within the science of reading

The Hechinger Report

Four meta-analyses conclude that it’s more effective to teach phonemic awareness with letters, not as an oral-only exercise. Researchers proved that these auditory skills could be taught and early studies showed that they could be taught as a purely oral exercise without letters. Phonemic awareness has a complicated history.

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School ed tech money mostly gets wasted. One state has a solution 

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift At a training session this summer, Pitts, a teacher at Oakdale Elementary in Sandy, Utah, learned why: The program works best when teachers supervise kids rather than sending them off to do exercises on their own. Utah has devised a system for reducing ed tech spending waste.

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Paper Acquires Readlee To Address Literacy Crisis With Artificial Intelligence

eSchool News

MONTREAL – Paper , the leading Educational Support System (ESS), today announced that it has acquired Readlee, an innovative learning tool that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and speech recognition technology to help students improve their reading skills. Proficiency levels decrease further to 18% for recent graduates of color.

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Duolingo IPO Shows Investors Think Edtech Is Still Growing.

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billion—which is a good moment to reflect on how mobile learning has entered classrooms and how the company has expanded from just an app. The system turns learning into a game, but competitors say that Duoloingo’s flaw is that it is a solitary system that fails to connect users with actual native speakers.

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