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Voice-Based English Tutoring App MyBuddy Merges With a Friend: Edwin

Edsurge

MyBuddy, an artificial intelligence-powered English tutoring app, features a friendly robot that guides children through speaking exercises. They’re so cozy, in fact, that the two companies have merged, and MyBuddy.ai As a part of the deal, half of his team—he and two others—will join the new parent company.

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The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed

The Hechinger Report

Many charter networks here, including Crescent City Schools, Firstline, ReNEW, and KIPP, have embraced an educational philosophy known as “personalized learning.”. Though personalized learning doesn’t have to include technology, many New Orleans charters have put computers at the center of their personalized learning efforts.

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Pump up the volume! More talking in class, please!

The Hechinger Report

The hush was troubling, because students learn a lot from debating ideas, sharing feedback and collectively exploring big questions. In doing so, Desmos joined a handful of other startups using tech to boost student interaction and class discussion, so that in the rush to personalize learning we don’t lose the benefits of learning together.

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What’s New: New Tools for Schools

techlearning

ADVANCED & MEASURED PROGRESS ( www.advanc-ed.org ) & ( www.measuredprogress.org ) Measured Progress and AdvancED will join forces to form a unique and far-reaching nonprofit educational company focused on data-driven tools for school improvement. has joined the ENA family of companies.

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?Preparing For an Unknown Future

Edsurge

If we continue on our current trajectory, they will come of age in a world filled with smart cities, embedded augmented reality, smart robots and revolutionary nanotech. Pivot from streamlining our obsolete system towards new ways to use technology that support the future of learning. Change your lens.

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Education Technology and the New Behaviorism

Hack Education

It’s a reaction, I’d say, to the current obsession with artificial intelligence and a response to all the stories we were told this year about robots on the cusp of replacing, out-“thinking,” and out-working us. The research is iffy at best.). ” An ed-tech trend in the making, investors hope.

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Everything you need to know about AI in education

eSchool News

Erika Sandstrom, who currently works with students in grades 4-8 in Massachusetts, created a custom, animated template–something she calls “ Breathing Bubbles ”–that helps her students with mindfulness and breathing exercises. This ability to personalize each exercise improved student engagement. That’s over ten hours a week.