MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

They decided to “personalize” learning for every child, which means that they tailored lessons to each student’s needs, interests and learning pace. Last year, the founder of Facebook pledged to donate $45 billion to social causes, one of them personalized learning. What is personalized learning?

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Personalized Learning Technology Knewton Learning 28

Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

“ Does tech designed to personalize learning actually benefit students? ” Via The New York Times : “ Google Pledges $300 Million to Clean Up False News.” ” Via Poynter : “ Poynter receives $3 million from Google to lead program teaching teens to tell fact from fiction online.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

They decided to “personalize” learning for every child, which means that they tailored lessons to each student’s needs, interests and learning pace. Related: Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work? What is personalized learning?

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Trends Study Knewton Personalized Learning 40

Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

You hear a lot of these sorts of proclamations when it comes to “personalized learning,” which is (increasingly) frequently invoked in direct opposition to some imagined or invented version of learning in the present or in the past.

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Personalized Learning Learning Course Handbook 83

edWeb.net

JUNE 23, 2021

Looking at variables such as student connectivity (and when that happened), virtual engagement, time spent on learning events and access to collaboration and productivity tools like Google Suite, Zoom and Khan Academy informed approaches to instruction and support systems.

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Khan Academy Data Industry Learning Analytics 53

Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2018

.” Edsurge offers “A Word of Caution Before Hiring a Director of Personalized Learning.” From the Google blog : “ Chromebook tablets for versatile learning.” From the Google blog : “ Chromebook tablets for versatile learning.” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Education Robotics iPad Company 45

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

Stephen Downes works in the Learning and Performance Support Systems program at the National Research Council, a multi-year effort to develop personal learning technology and learning analytics. But it surged in big way in 2016, below the radar, but touching lives like never before.

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Trends EdTech MOOC Smartphone 111

Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

” Via Edsurge : “ Britannica CEO Talks Google, Wikipedia and What Lil Pump Can Teach Us About Credibility.” Swing Education has raised $15 million from GV (Google Ventures), Kapor Capital, Ulu Ventures, Moment Ventures, Edovate Capital, Red House Education, Owl Ventures, and Social Capital. The company has raised $20.4

Education 43

Education Khan Academy Blackboard Report 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Course Signals, a software product developed by Purdue University, was designed to boost “student success” by using learning analytics to inform teachers, students, and staff to potential problems, labeling students with a red/yellow/green scheme to indicate their danger in failing a course. Google Reader. Course Signals.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MAY 4, 2018

Leap Innovations has received $14 million from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to “introduce or expand personalized learning instructional models” in the Chicago Public Schools. “Personalized learning instructional models” is just chef finger kiss perfect. The tutoring app has raised $1.5

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MOOC Education Robotics Company 42

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

Speaking of loans, Google will ban ads for payday loans. The New Yorker profiles Sphero ’s learn-to-code toy for kids but says dumb things about Seymour Papert’s Logo so I’m not sure why I’m even linking to this. Via Techcrunch : “ Lilwil ’s personalized learning engine teaches teachers how to teach.”

Education 52

Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Educators Discuss Pros and Cons of Learning Analytics.” Reports from Edsurge Fusion : “The Future Is Always Uncertain. ” This looks primarily at Summit Public Schools, which works with Facebook to build a learning management system that folks will try to convince you is “ personalized learning.”

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Education Facebook Company Robotics 48

Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

” It’s a process incredibly similar to what’s marketed in education as “learning analytics” – tracking the social media and digital activity of students to identify those who might be “at risk.” Google similarly allowed advertisers to target people who were searching for racist phrases.

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Data Education Software Social Media 78

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

Fascinating how affluent parents in the shadow of Google and Apple HQs respond to ed-tech, no?). ” “ Google’s Toontastic storytelling app for kids goes 3D,” says Techcrunch. Via the ALA press release : “Equipping librarians to code: ALA , Google launch ready to code university pilot program.”

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MOOC Education Robotics Report 40

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

Via the Providence Journal : “Three teachers have resigned from Blackstone Valley Prep after the charter school confirmed allegations that they posted hurtful messages about some of their students” into a Google Doc shared with the entire school. “Can Venture Capital Put Personalized Learning Within Reach of All Students?”

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Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Google , in Post-Obama Era, Aggressively Woos Republicans ” – so enjoy that Google Certification, educators. Via Education Week : “ Mississippi Attorney General Sues Google Over Student-Data Privacy.” ” That’d be Hugo Barra , a former Google exec.

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