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Edtech Should Be More Evidence-Driven

Edsurge

Perhaps most critically, edtech also has potential to provide children with a personalized learning experience tailored to their own context, interests, and abilities—something that a new UNESCO report calls a human right. Instead, the most frequently cited benchmark of evidence were customer quotes and school case studies.

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Lexia Learning’s Founder, Robert Arthur Lemire, Dies at Eighty-Nine

eSchool News

BOSTON (June 23, 2022) – Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, is saddened to announce that the company’s founder, Robert A. Lemire created Lexia Learning in 1984 after watching his son struggle to learn to read. Today, the company serves more than 5.5 About Lexia Learning.

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What K-12 School Leaders Look for in Ed-Tech Product Research

Marketplace K-12

An award-winning district leader focuses on products that help with personalization, and says companies can start the conversation with case studies. The post What K-12 School Leaders Look for in Ed-Tech Product Research appeared first on Market Brief.

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What Does ‘Personalized Learning’ Look Like? Video Series Aims to Go Beyond Hype

Wired Campus

An education blog whose authors believe there’s too much hype around “personalized learning” technology has posted a series of video case studies about the trend, hoping to help get beyond overheated rhetoric. “We look at what’s working and what’s not.” ”

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New Resource Drills Down on Blended Learning, ‘Personalized’ Ed. Practices

Marketplace K-12

Big, broad terms like “blended learning” and “personalized learning” permeate pretty much every corner of the K-12 landscape these days. Roots Elementary, a K-2 charter school in Denver; and ReNEW’s Dolores T.

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Digital Learning in Organizations

Learning with 'e's

The book is aimed at those working as learning and development professionals in industry, but will also be of interest to any, and all, those working in the world of learning technology, knowledge and education. Unported License.

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Is strength-based learning a “magic bullet?”

The Hechinger Report

They’re among the 10 “talent themes,” or strengths, used to underpin learning in the school district here. Starting in preschool, teachers try to spot students’ natural talents; by kindergarten, each child’s top strengths appear on a “personalized learning plan,” a new type of report card.