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Five Things You Don’t Know About Cloud Computing and Education

Edsurge

Over the last decade, we’ve seen educational institutions—from K-12 schools to colleges and universities—make tremendous strides in seizing the opportunities that modern technologies provide. They are developing a recommendation engine to leverage dropout rate data to predict and design interventions for at-risk students.

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Adapting to the New Classroom

techlearning

Adaptive learning technology is the new go-to for personalized learning. This technology solved another of the district’s biggest struggles—implementing an effective common assessment among 12 elementary and middle schools. Technology is blended in a unique way throughout the PAUSD program. Eye gaze technology ?

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Online Classes Get a Missing Piece: Teamwork

Edsurge

The lack of social interaction could be one reason behind high dropout rates in online classes. Sure, there are sophisticated online lectures where learners can see one another on screen and break out into small groups to chat via video. But these are still the minority online classes. The human element makes a difference.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

Anxiety over the influence of technology in schools, as in our lives, is an old story — but one made painfully acute by the glowing smartphone on which you may be reading this article. Gist: Our goal is to be the first state to fully blend technology into all schools.

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Trump has promised manufacturing jobs, but high school grads might want to seek credentialed “middle-skills” posts instead

The Hechinger Report

I miss browsing the new video releases at Blockbuster. Those blue-collar jobs – at least as we remember them in our collective imagination – went to people, mostly men, fresh out of high school, graduate and dropout alike. Anthony Carnevale. I miss watching Gunsmoke on Saturday nights. I miss casseroles. During the recession, 5.6

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. It would be great to see education technology organizations also turn away this money, knowing that – if nothing else – children and families are harmed by anti-immigration policies and practices. “ Robots in the classroom ?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” ” Via Education Week : “In hurricanes ’ aftermath, technology eases return to school.” “‘Eton for all’: will robot teachers mean everyone gets an elite education?