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OPINION: How schools can find common ground in an era of education wars

The Hechinger Report

School leaders like myself must respond to these challenges by revamping our visions, instructional practices and organizational systems to meet the needs of today’s kids and families. At the same time, McKinsey & Company estimates that automation and artificial intelligence will displace between 400 and 800 million jobs globally by 2030.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

But during that same fifteen-year period, we also witnessed the birth and growth of highly influential firms like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Tencent and Alibaba. SchoolNet built and marketed an “instructional management system” that aimed to deliver useful data about student progress to teachers and administrators.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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Coursera (online education): $210.1 Knewton (adaptive learning): $182.3 Age of Learning (educational apps): $181.5 DreamBox Learning (adaptive learning): $175.6 AltSchool (private school; learning management system): $172.9 D2L (learning management system): $165 million.

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What 2015 Holds for the Future of Education

Digital Promise

“I think instances of personalized learning will become more and more present in classroom settings. ’ There are a lot of people in education working to create a system that reflects that!” League of Innovative Schools. I recently heard the sentence, ‘Treating kids equitably is not treating them the same.’

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Coursera highlights its mentors – its volunteer mentors – on its blog. Google had a big press event this week too, unveiling shiny stuff to a cheering crowd of stenographers. A Wi-Fi system. VR headsets (well, it’s really just a mask that holds your Google phone up to your face). Raise $146.1

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Hack Education Weekly News

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That seems to be Coursera ’s business model. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “White paper explores changing the accreditation system to encourage continuous improvement and open the door to ‘alternative’ education providers.” The school messaging system has raised $6.8 powered teaching method.”

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Driverless Ed-Tech: The History of the Future of Automation in Education

Hack Education

So instead of a zeppelin, we got to ride in one of Google’s self-driving cars, which was of course the project that Thrun had been working on when he gave his famous TED Talk in 2011 – and that, in turn, was where he heard Salman Khan give his famous TED Talk. Google versus Uber. Efficiency.