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Renaissance Learning to Acquire Nearpod in Blockbuster $650M All-Cash Deal

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Renaissance Learning , a provider of K-12 software and assessments, including the widely used STAR tests, has agreed to acquire Nearpod for $650 million. The pandemic really accelerated the need for teachers to find ways to continue doing things that were once easily done in classrooms,” he says in an interview.

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Educators on Artificial Intelligence: Here's the One Thing it Can't Do Well

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Some give generalized, out-of-classroom descriptions; others tailor their definitions more specifically to education. Kasey Bell, a digital learning consultant and former Texas teacher, choose to go for the former: “AI [is] defined as machines with the ability or intelligence to complete tasks on their own and make intelligent decisions.”