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Here's How Single Sign-On Saved One District 2,500 Hours of Instructional Time Per Month

Edsurge

Our district uses a wide variety of technology—MAC, PC, iPads, Android tablets, Chromebooks, cell phones—which can be a challenge for IT departments and teachers. There is also more time for students to reflect on learning and for teachers to reflect on lessons. Plus, we’re a BYOD environment. Has SSO helped with security issues?

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). And then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s venture philanthropy firm and its commitment to fund “personalized learning.” “Now Any Organization Can Create Content for LinkedIn Learning,” Edsurge reported in June.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

Primary and secondary schools are a battleground between iPads and Chromebooks, it seems. Personalized learning is winning a growing amount of attention, but no off-the-shelf tech solutions. Instead it seems to be a learning strategy, sometimes driven by state governments.

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15 hot edtech trends for 2017

eSchool News

Stephen Downes works in the Learning and Performance Support Systems program at the National Research Council, a multi-year effort to develop personal learning technology and learning analytics. But it surged in big way in 2016, below the radar, but touching lives like never before.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” Edsurge offers “A Word of Caution Before Hiring a Director of Personalized Learning.” From the Google blog : “ Chromebook tablets for versatile learning.” ” Via The Verge : “Apple is ready to fight Google’s Chromebooks with cheaper iPads.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Course Signals, a software product developed by Purdue University, was designed to boost “student success” by using learning analytics to inform teachers, students, and staff to potential problems, labeling students with a red/yellow/green scheme to indicate their danger in failing a course. Course Signals.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“The Growing Role of Technology in Personalized Learning ,” according to KQED’s Mindshift. Google has released the latest generation of Chromebooks. Via Techcrunch : “ Microsoft launches Intune for Education to counter Google’s Chromebooks in schools.” “The New Gold Rush?