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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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The Gates Foundation has backed a variety of education reform initiatives : charter schools, the Common Core State Standards, “small schools,” inBloom, teacher evaluations, and yes, “personalized learning.” ” Instead, it said it would offer some diagnostic tools online.

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A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: Learning Models & Technology

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Gamification. A collection of software bundled by Google that is available on a subscription model for schools and classroom. Common Core) for individual students. I really believe I could have hit a mosquito in the eye with a pine needle at thirty paces; I couldn’t miss because there was no such thing as a miss.”

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

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Always eager to associate itself with the latest tech craze, education technology embraced Pokémon Go with great gusto: “ Why Pokemon Go shows the future of learning gamification.” I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.)

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