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The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed

The Hechinger Report

Many charter networks here, including Crescent City Schools, Firstline, ReNEW, and KIPP, have embraced an educational philosophy known as “personalized learning.”. Though personalized learning doesn’t have to include technology, many New Orleans charters have put computers at the center of their personalized learning efforts.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It It announced this year it was “ phasing out ” its reliance on Knewton provide those algorithms.). The Chromebooks are not fully-functioning laptops. ” But what did Facebook do?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. For the past ten years, every ten months or so, someone would pen an op-ed claiming it was time to ban laptops in the classroom. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. One Laptop Per Child. WTF is Unizin ?!

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“ Apple and Maine education officials are allowing school districts to trade in iPads for laptops after teachers and students say the computers are better for schoolwork,” according to The Sun Journal. “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“Mind-reading robo tutor in the sky” company Knewton has a new CEO , Brian Kibby , formerly with Pearson. Edsurge profiles “ personalized learning ” software used in a virtual school that has some 450 incarcerated students. Via Inside Higher Ed : “ OpenStax Launches Learning Platform.”