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Knewton, HP team up on personalized print solutions

eSchool News

Personalized print learning solutions could help close the gap between online, print worlds by letting publishers and teachers tailor materials for students’ individual needs. Students can learn using printed and/or digital adaptive content. Digital Learning and Tools News Online Learning Top News'

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The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed

The Hechinger Report

“I go into a lot of classrooms as a consultant and I see where teachers will put kids on the personalized learning software independently, but they’re not necessarily incorporating principles of personalized learning in their instruction,” said Tinashe Blanchet, who runs an after-school program in New Orleans called the Learning Lab.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It It announced this year it was “ phasing out ” its reliance on Knewton provide those algorithms.). ” But what did Facebook do? Students will receive iPads.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.” Founded in 2008 by a former Kaplan executive Jose Ferreira, Knewton was one of the most heavily funded ed-tech startups of the decade. Pearson's "Digital Transformation".

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