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K-12 Educators and Administrators: Share Your Ed-tech Pilot Approach

Digital Promise

We want to understand how effective our current set of digital math resources are on student outcomes and how schools are currently adopting resources for their classrooms. And the programs don’t come with the kind of data our teachers want for the competency-based learning approach we’re taking.

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Personalized Learning “Twister”: A Future of Learning Live Demo in Dallas

EdNews Daily

This breaks up the traditional age/grade groupings to make way for dynamic groupings based on individual progress. Some people have called parts of this “competency-based learning,” but ideally schools can achieve this shift without altering outcomes in such a holistic way.

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Has New Hampshire found the secret to online education that works?

The Hechinger Report

And it isn’t looking good in terms of outcomes,” she said. At VLACS, by contrast, teachers learn from their first day about the importance of frequent communication with students and families to overcome the distance inherent in virtual schooling. Related: Is the future of education teacher-robots bumping into walls?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot,” The Wall Street Journal gushed in 2016 , documenting an experiment undertaken at Georgia Tech in which a chatbot called “Jill Watson” answered questions in a course’s online forum. CZI took over the engineering of the learning management system from Facebook in 2017.).

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