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What?s New: New Tools for Schools

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EDMENTUM EXACTPATH ( www.edmentum.com/products/exact-path ) Edmentum Exact Path utilizes adaptive diagnostic assessments paired with targeted student learning paths to ensure academic growth in K-8 reading, language arts, and math. Bubble Bot features a bubble-blowing robot or a Fan of Fortune, a prediction game.

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T&L’S ISTE 2018 BEST OF SHOW AWARDS WINNERS

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EDMENTUM EXACT PATH ( WWW.EDMENTUM.COM/ ) Edmentum Exact Path utilizes adaptive diagnostic assessments paired with individualized learning paths to ensure academic growth in K-8 reading, language arts, and math. The judges recommended the 2-1 for its construction, strength, and approachable price.

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Education Technology and the New Behaviorism

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It’s a reaction, I’d say, to the current obsession with artificial intelligence and a response to all the stories we were told this year about robots on the cusp of replacing, out-“thinking,” and out-working us. There are promises about “ brain zapping ” to speed up learning. The research is iffy at best.).

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” The Business of Job Training. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Edmentum has raised $25 million in debt financing from New Mountain Finance Corporation and Tennenbaum Capital Partners. Ed-tech has always addressed this, particularly since so much of its roots are in military training, but hey.

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Hero Awards finalists: 18 schools and educators dedicated to learning

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Plus, to help educators who were new to online learning during, FlexPoint helped train more than 14,000 education professionals nationwide, equaling more than 500 hours of professional development. Additionally, FLVS supported Florida schools and districts by training more than 10,000 teachers statewide and provided ongoing support.

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Which Edtech Companies Are Listening to Teachers?

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The creators of an educational robot, for instance, recently decided that they needed to rethink its training regimen. The small Dallas-based edtech company named RoboKind makes a 3-foot tall, spikey-haired robot named Milo, used in schools to help children with autism learn to decode nonverbal communication. They’re engineers.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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There are a variety of reasons for this: language barriers, lack of Internet access, incompatible devices, lack of training. Also, let me introduce you to other items on this list: brainwave monitoring, brain training, social emotional learning.). Brain Training. But the “spying” has continued. Chatbot Instructors. Unbundling".

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