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Best Vocabulary Apps for Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The inclusion of offline access is a significant advantage, ensuring that learning is uninterrupted even in the absence of an internet connection. Key features like voice search, Word of the Day, integrated thesaurus, example sentences, and audio pronunciations elevate the learning experience.

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Top Trends Higher Education Textbook Publishers Must Follow

Kitaboo on EdTech

Rather than giving out a default collection of chapters in every eBook, let them choose their own learning resources and create personalized learning materials. This chapter-based content selection will enable higher education students to take and combine specific learning content that suits their learning needs.

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Look Who’s Talking—Michael Trucano from the Brookings Institution on AI in education

eSchool News

That’s one big area and I think and whether it’s decision and and then how important those decisions are and you know where there are consequential decisions about, for example, some kid getting assigned to this class or not or passing a class or or getting a a A grade on this test or not. 00:09:13 It’s not really.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Larry Cuban on personalized learning : part 1 and part 2. ” It reminded me, not of Carnegie who the article mentions, but of Gates , who initially started funding libraries – public and collective access to digital technologies – before turning to school reform and “personalized learning” efforts.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Look at former Harvard President Drew Faust , for example! Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Pearson today signaled an increased focus on artificial intelligence and personalized learning with the appointment of former Intel executive Milena Marinova.” Chegg has acquired the flashcard app StudyBlue for $20.8

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools.

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