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One Standardized Tests Provider Looks to Gaming and Personalized Learning to Innovate Exams

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Aligning tests with the ways students learn in the classroom is one of Gorin’s goals. Her research team has been evaluating ways to consider aspects of personalized learning and gaming into their tests, a project she describes as difficult but necessary. It makes those comparisons difficult.” Help or Hindrance?

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AI in the classroom: Are we there yet?

Neo LMS

In his BETT talk , Joel Hellermark, founder of Sana technologies of Sweden, and all-round AI-prodigy, (not to be ageist but at 22, his approach, clear insight and success is quite astounding), defines machine learning via neural networks using a simple comparison: Deep Blue versus AlphaGo.

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The Education of an Android Teacher

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She’s the namesake of Maria, a destructive robot character from the 1927 silent film “Metropolis.” And when she does, the professor requests that they not ask her the question that springs so easily to people’s minds when they encounter a robot: Will you take over the world? I am told I am a robot for good every day.

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The Big 3's War Over EDU: A Comparison of Apple, Google, and Microsoft

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As an Education Technology Specialist with the Iteach Center at Kennesaw State University, he works with a metro Atlanta school district to personalize learning for students with the aid of technology. It could get there though if they keep making acquisitions.

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Why we should leave behind the cookie-cutter education

Neo LMS

You may argue that schools need to cater to the learning needs of hundreds of students every day, while mothers only have one to five kids (more or less) to worry about. So my comparison is somewhat invalid. … And go towards personalized learning. Let’s stop treating kids like robots.

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?Preparing For an Unknown Future

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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. ways to improve the efficiency of passive content consumption or the improved use of low-hanging data points to make sweeping comparisons of heterogenous populations).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” “ Personalized learning gives students a sense of control over chaotic lives,” says The Hechinger Report , in a very glowing look at the Summit Public Schools ’ ( Facebook -built) learning management system. Subscription boxes for teachers are somehow “ personalized learning.”