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How to enhance students’ work-ready skills

Neo LMS

Robotic or holographic avatar designer. Robot operator. Below you can find a full list of important skills extracted from the Future of Skills report , created by Pearson. This way students have to work with a digital tool daily to learn, to prepare their assessments, to collaborate, and other tasks. Cyborg designer.

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With Eyes on Asia, Kidaptive Raises $19.1M to Grow Its ‘Invisible’ Adaptive Learning Platform

Edsurge

Kidaptive first entered the edtech market in 2012 with Leo’s Pad, a game-based learning app that offered mini-games and puzzles to assess cognitive skills in young children. Once the industry’s poster child for adaptive learning, Knewton boasted working with dozens of publishers, including Pearson and McGraw-Hill. Back in the U.S.,

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I Moved a Drone With My Mind. Soon Your Students Will Too.

Edsurge

I stood facing the drone, about to face-off with a little robot. When I asked David Pearson, a British clinical psychologist who works with children facing adversity, if regular mindfulness practice would have helped me fly my drone his answer was “Yes, it would.” My mind-control-drone-moving experience was nothing like this.

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Jose Ferreira Steps Down as Knewton CEO, Eyes Next Education Startup

Edsurge

These partners range from household names such as Pearson and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, to upstarts like Waggle. At conferences, he has openly questioned whether teachers can out-do technology when it comes to assessing what a student knows or doesn’t.

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Your Syllabus to SXSW EDU 2019 (and Where to Find Us!)

Edsurge

Companies include an AI robot, student incubator and a startup called Pie for Providers. The Future of the K-12 Education Industry : From BigChalk to Pearson, then to Renaissance and now Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Jack Lynch has steered education companies through plenty of change in the digital era. Join us for a slice of the action!

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Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later

Iterating Toward Openness

To the best of my knowledge there is no one really working on next gen OER – OER that are interactive, simulative, really rich with multimedia AND combined with OAR [open assessment resources] that drive diagnosis, remediation, and adaptation. We think platforms like Pearson’s MyLab and Cengage’s MindTap are the enemy.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

“Fake news,” “robots coming for our jobs,” “the new economy,” “surveillance capitalism,” “personalization,” “the cult of innovation,” and so on – these are all narratives intertwined in the power of major technology companies, platforms, data, and algorithms.