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OPINION: Some warning flags for those embracing personalized learning powered by education technology

The Hechinger Report

The bestselling children’s apps are developmentally inappropriate , and many popular digital books contain distracting features that limit children’s story comprehension and vocabulary learning. Third, there are many concerns involving personal data and the business-models of digital learning.

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How to educate students on online behavior in a digital learning environment

Hapara

With Workspace, you can differentiate instruction and create personalized learning opportunities. It’s an easy way to provide learning choices and incorporate student voice in assessments. Download the free e-book The post How to educate students on online behavior in a digital learning environment appeared first on Hāpara.

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How Academic Publishers Can Push the Boundaries of Digital Learning

Edsurge

He printed the first major book, using movable metal type. Books became the gold standard of information storage because they could finally be easily reproduced and shared. From that day forward, the printed book became the foundation of the educational publishing industry. Those days are coming to an end.

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New book! Different Schools for a Different World

Dangerously Irrelevant

As some of you may have realized by now, Dean Shareski and I have a new book out. If schools are to genuinely prepare graduates to compete in a technology-infused information landscape, they must stop acting as they did when learning and teaching primarily occurred in analog formats. Making Learning Flow , John Spencer.

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The End of the Promise of Personalized Learning?

EdNews Daily

This would mean that even public schools using any school system hosted on the internet could not use messages that profile users (“hello sixth-grade students, click this link for your reading book”), or invite any minor child users to any service or product of theirs or ones they use from publishers. Saving Personalized Learning.

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Million-Dollar Advice: The High Cost and Limited Return on Personalized Learning Consulting

Edsurge

In July of 2015, the district paid more than $400,000 for alignment, strategy and professional services from Education Elements, a for-profit personalized learning consultant, according to receipts obtained by EdSurge from the district. million to the firm for personalized-learning consulting services.

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What to Identify Before Personalizing Learning

edWeb.net

iNACOL defines personalized learning as “tailoring learning for each student’s strength, needs, and interests—including enabling student’s voice and choice in what, how, when and where they learn—to provide flexibility and supports to ensure mastery of the highest standards possible.” WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.