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Austin Independent School District Selects IXL to Support Classroom Instruction and Distance Learning

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IXL Learning , the K-12 personalized learning platform used by 11 million students, today announced a three-year agreement with Austin Independent School District to bring its adaptive software to approximately 70,000 students. About IXL Learning.

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Renaissance Learning to Acquire Nearpod in Blockbuster $650M All-Cash Deal

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Nearpod offers some of its content and tools for free and sells licenses to individual teachers, schools and districts. The size of this acquisition dwarfs that of a similar one last year: Discovery Education’s $140-million purchase of Mystery Science , a provider of elementary-grade science curriculum. million in outside capital.)

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Educators on Artificial Intelligence: Here's the One Thing it Can't Do Well

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But when educators have different concepts of what makes a piece of technology or tool “intelligent,” it means that a variety of tools get lumped into the AI category—even if they aren’t technically “artificially intelligent.” Not so fast argues Chris Gosselin, a Digital Learning Coach at Sanborn Elementary School.

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TenMarks Shutdown Leaves Teachers Wanting, Competitors Circling

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Programs like Ascend Math and Mathletics have entire web pages devoted to marketing their tools to outgoing TenMarks customers. Its parent company, 3P Learning, promises to price-match on districts’ most recent TenMarks contract. That also meant that TenMarks’ competitors have seen an opportunity and seized it. We’ve got you covered.”