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What Will Online Learning Look Like in 10 Years? Zoom Has Some Ideas

Edsurge

Millions downloaded it—and first learned of it—back in early 2020, when lockdowns forced billions of students online, and at least 100,000 schools onto Zoom. But as the company itself will tell you, it didn’t spring up overnight. In the future, there may be many such companies piggybacking off Zoom’s popularity.

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Artificial Intelligence, Authentic Impact: How Educational AI is Making the Grade

EdTech Magazine

As noted by MIT Technology Review , the rapid development and uptake of AI solutions has created an environment where companies may “obfuscate and oversell” AI abilities even as organizations race to implement new solutions and keep up with the competition. The challenge? Separating market interest from authentic impact.

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What Gartner’s Top Tech Trends for 2019 Mean for Education

EdTech Magazine

While autonomous school buses may be far down the road, companies like RobotLAB are already designing interactive learning experiences that incorporate autonomous machine s to teach programming.

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Google Assistant and Edwin Want To Be Your Next English Tutor

Edsurge

Google is investing in the education startup Edwin , an AI-powered English tutor that was one of eight education technology companies to come out of Y Combinator’s latest demo day. In addition to the funding, Edwin and three other selected companies will have access to advice from Google engineers, and marketing support.

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OPINION: Let’s help our middle schoolers learn from their digital worlds

The Hechinger Report

Educators and caregivers may wonder why, as researchers, we are promoting a positive view of digital technologies for young adolescents, when an array of headlines suggest that smartphones and social media are responsible for problems ranging from rising rates of childhood obesity to a youth mental health epidemic.

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Renaissance and Nearpod, Coming Together to Empower Teachers and Accelerate Student Growth

eSchool News

million Nearpod teachers delivers on the full promise of personalizing learning across remote, hybrid, and in-person classrooms.”. Nearpod customers will continue to receive the support, service, and innovation they have come to expect and love from the company. To learn more, visit www.nearpod.com.

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How Instructors Are Adapting to a Rise in Student Disengagement

Edsurge

In the past year, colleges have seen a rise in students skipping lectures , and some reports indicate that students are more prone to staring at TikTok or other distractions on their smartphones and laptops during lecture class. We know that this is what was happening … with learning during the pandemic, but now we're all back together again.

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