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Going Back to School to Learn About Blended Learning

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

Education Elements offers personalized learning consulting services and can help schools walk through the process. And companies like Knewton are targeting schools taking a personalized approach. So that means more blended learning. What will the future of blended learning look like for Natick?

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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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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

.” She posits gaming as the new site for “modern learning,” with an emphasis on skills training and data-driven self-improvement. How accurate is her data? (I’d There may be no better example of this in 2017 than “personalized learning.” Manufacturing Trends.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. ” Those “countless needs and niches” can be met thanks to all the data generation and data collection that happens on them. Platforms are “an extractive apparatus for data.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

According to excerpts of speeches published by Wikileaks – stolen data – Clinton called the Common Core a “political failure” in a speech she gave to Knewton. Neither Knewton nor the Clinton campaign have confirmed the veracity of this leaked speech. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Education Technology and the Ideology of Personalization

Hack Education

Facebook’s Plans to “Personalize” Education. ” A personalized news feed, for example. And “personalization” is the underlying promise of the new education software Facebook is itself building. ” Data can be shared with any company that Facebook deems necessary.