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Real Questions About Artificial Intelligence in Education

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Can adaptive platforms (such as ALEKS or Knewton) help students learn the facts and enable the teachers to guides? Say I’m a teacher, and an edtech company says “my math tool is AI-backed.” This is an area where it would improve the job of edtech developers if we said, “Here’s what you’re allowed to gather and share.”

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The Long Life of a Data Trail

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Examples of services like this include many EdTech products out there, including Edmodo, Remind, ClassDojo, Schoology, most digital text offerings from traditional publishers like Pearson and McGraw Hill, learning programs like Agilix Buzz, and app ecosystems like Amplify tablets, iPads, and Chromebooks.

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What Can Machine Learning Really Predict in Education?

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Panelist Andrew Jones, a data scientist at Knewton, admitted that despite the hype, machine learning is still relatively limited in how it’s been applied, at least in the eyes of some users. For all the talk about data and learning, Essa offered this blunt assessment: “Pretty much all edtech sucks. Or does it?) So what’s missing?

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Saddle Up for Silicon Slopes! Our Guide to the 2017 ASU+GSV Summit

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Luminaries in the edtech industry, including Richard Culatta (ISTE CEO and former director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. We’ll be broadcasting live interviews with key speakers throughout the event—online and for free. edtech deals. 2:00PM: Mapping EdTech Globally by Navitas Ventures. Don’t worry.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Edtech CEOs Seek to Change the ‘ Adversarial Narrative ’ With Public School Teachers,” says Edsurge. From the Knewton blog : “ Introducing Knewton Product Updates for Fall 2017.” . “ Ed Tech Products Should Make Educators More Efficient ,” says EdWeek’s Matthew Lynch.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Here’s Edsurge’s take on the AEI event. From the press release : “ Knewton Launches Alta, Fully Integrated Adaptive Learning Courseware for Higher Education, Putting Achievement in Reach for Everyone.” .” Here are the “Prepared Remarks by U.S. “The U.S.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It’s now become a way in which educational events, organizations, and institutions dole out funding for projects. Edsurge told its version of events for the past decade’s worth of ed-tech, and I told mine. One can trace far too many bad ideas to the event whose focus purports to be on “ideas worth spreading”: TED. The TED Talk.

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