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Year in Review: Our Top Edtech Business Stories of 2018

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Is Assessment Ready to Move Beyond Standardized Tests? education—from curbing kids’ enthusiasm for learning to stifling new instructional practices and tools. So MIT researchers have been hard at work developing a new kind of assessment to measure all the things we say we care about—like curiosity, creativity and critical thinking.

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Sony Vows to Bring “Blockchain” Tech to Education. Will It Take Hold in K-12?

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Sony Global Education , a company affiliated with the Japanese electronics corporation, defines blockchain as a decentralized network technology in which the same data are recorded and maintained on multiple nodes–computers connected to a network–that are geographically isolated. Goodbye, Middleman?

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Get to the root of the edtech issues with three key questions

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They also said, though, that with the silos of information that still exist in many schools and districts, one of the most important pieces of data to collect is to find out what edtech resources are actually being used in your classroom. Do you know if any of these applications violate student data privacy?

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Hero Awards finalists: 18 schools and educators dedicated to learning

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She implements programs like Istation to give her teachers an advantage in providing data driven instruction and strong, effective interventions. Alexander inspires an innovative approach to learning by embedding interventions led by Istation’s assessment data into the school’s daily instruction.

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

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Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. Has our confidence that we or our students have “nothing to hide” changed now under President-Elect Trump ? students given SATs that were online before exam.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via EdScoop : “‘Deliberate cyberattack ’ delays online assessments in five states.” ” “Don’t Take Personality Tests Personally,” says Pacific Standard. .” Ah yes, a giant technology company deciding what “good manners” sounds like. It’s raised $155.8

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. And “free” doesn’t last.

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