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When Education Giants Stumbled and Data Ruled

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Ten years ago, the iPhone was already out, but the iPad had not been released yet. They were the most powerful companies in education. They bought other companies to try to blend assessment and curriculum as they also continued publishing. When it comes to devices, many kids today have access to iPads or Chromebooks.

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Getting Girls into STEM: The Power of Blended (and All-Female) Instruction

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Mary’s all-girls robotics team, knows a thing or two about breaking the mold. Mary's Academy building robots Using blended learning to personalize instruction Five years ago, SMA launched a 1:1 iPad initiative designed to put technology in the hands of every student so she could have greater control over her own learning.

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All the Upgrades and Updates From Apple, Google and More at ISTE 2018

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Joining them were an additional 6,000 reps from companies big and small. Fractions covers math standards for grades 3-6 and features a storyline and what the company calls “personalized feedback” through an online tutor. Following its March announcement, Apple’s Schoolwork app for iPad is now available for teachers.

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eSN Hero Awards Finalists: 11 inspiring educators

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Prior to the 2021-2022 school year, the district’s assessment data showed math scores were low, contributing to 14 out of 48 schools in the district being identified as low performing in 2019. For example, in one activity, she supercharges a regular lesson by having students record explanations of what they’ve learned on their iPads.

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To Build Voice Recognition for Early Literacy, Soapbox Labs Gives Kids a Voice

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Yet some of the voice recognition systems today were neither designed nor trained to pick up different dialects, and that can be a problem when they are used to assess oral fluency, says Patricia Scanlon. “I The company said it has fixed the glitch.) And that can cause snafus when children interact with voice assistants.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 & 29 Editions)

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Tagged on: July 21, 2017 A complex web of factors influence children’s commercial media literacy | LSE Business Review → If they don’t know an ad from information, how can they grasp how companies use their personal data? Tagged on: July 20, 2017 Are iPads and laptops improving students’ test scores? wi.us, among other sources."

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What?s New: New Tools for Schools

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The adaptive Apex Learning Tutorials for intervention, remediation, and preparation for high-stakes assessments were proven to improve students’ performance on the Tutorials from pretest to posttest by more than 50% and by an average of 23 to 26 percentile points during the 2016–2017 school year. announced the U.S.

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