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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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If the control involved 12 hours of work a week over one semester, but the treatment required only 4 hours a week, that’s a 3x improvement in learning efficiency. If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.” Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought.

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35 edtech innovations we saw at FETC 2023

eSchool News

In her current role, she works directly with the district’s online tutoring programs, including FEV Tutor , to accelerate learning for students. FTW Robotics displayed its drone technology in booth #518 that is currently in 1K schools throughout the United States. VEX Robotics demonstrated its VEX GO and VEX 123 solutions.

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eSchool News launches Digital & Mobile Learning Guide

eSchool News

eSchool News Guides are full of resources, tips, trends, and insights from industry experts on a variety of topics that are essential to the classroom, school, and district. Have you dreamed of using more digital tools and resources in your district’s classrooms, but don’t know where to look for those resources?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Education Week : “ FCC Chair Moves to Block E-Rate Funds for Companies Deemed ‘Security Risk’ ” (State and Local) Education Politics. ” Well, I guess I need to keep an eye on how the tutoring industry rebrands itself what with all the investment dollars it’s receiving.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

One tech industry CEO’s vision of revolutionizing schools withers, and another is there to take its place. ” Via Education Dive : “Tech for ELL students can bridge content and digital learning gaps.” But anyway… Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Something something robots something something.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “More than 50 groups have signed a letter demanding that Candice E. Via The San Francisco Chronicle : “ Dev Bootcamp couldn’t tough out industry shakeout.” Edsurge on “Bridging the School-to-Business Gap: What Public Schools Can Learn From Industry.”