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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

If they are right, it would mean short-circuiting the famous “10,000-hour rule” based on studies by education researcher Anders Ericsson and popularized by bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell in his book “Outliers.” If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.”

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35 edtech innovations we saw at FETC 2023

eSchool News

The company has built several tools to do that, including a customizable reading challenge platform and a mobile app, reading challenge templates, and diverse book recommendations. In her current role, she works directly with the district’s online tutoring programs, including FEV Tutor , to accelerate learning for students.

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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Please consider becoming part of this elite team by signing up at [link] and using the booking calendar to schedule volunteer time. Candidate VoiceThread for Digital Education - Kelli Stair- teacher/ writer An Example STEAM and Maker-Education Curriculum: From Puppets to Robots - Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D. Huge thanks!

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Private School With Low Vaccination Rates.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via The New York Times : “Meet Zora, the Robot Caregiver.” Via YLE : “ Finland ’s digital-based curriculum impedes learning, researcher finds.” Here’s why it shouldn’t have.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

“To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2010. The key word in that headline isn’t “digital”; it’s “force.” In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via CNET : “ Verizon to pay $17M to resolve FCC, Justice E-Rate probes.” “ Internet Archive Hopes to Help Libraries Make Available Books Once Thought Trapped By Copyright,” writes Jen Howard. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” More via Buzzfeed. The Business of Student Loans. billion in U.S.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” “In my book, there’s no reason why children in elementary schools can’t be launching their own businesses,” [says founder] Rebekah Neumann. ” Via Education Dive : “Tech for ELL students can bridge content and digital learning gaps.” But anyway… Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.