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Finding ‘Personalized Learning’ and Other Edtech Buzzwords on the Gartner Hype Cycle

Edsurge

As Clayton Christensen recently said to me, just as people have taken the phrase “disruptive innovation” to justify whatever they already wanted to do, people are using the phrase personalized learning—and a whole host of other terms—in a similar manner. Peak of Inflated Expectations: Personalized Learning.

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Teaching Tools and Techniques

eSchool News

These visual representations enhance the learning environment and provide valuable reference points for students throughout the school year. By encouraging curiosity and self-directed inquiry, this approach fosters a deeper engagement with the subject matter and cultivates lifelong learning skills.

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Should Robots Replace Teachers?

Edsurge

There was a person behind the scenes basically typing on a laptop and a teacher kind of controlling it. And there are also what roboticists refer to as “care receiving” as opposed to “caregiving” robots. Summit Learning was a kind of popular one in K-12 in the U.S. You might as well just have a puppet in a classroom.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

Ramos would connect to the library’s Wi-Fi — sometimes on her cellphone, sometimes using her family’s only laptop — to complete assignments and submit essays or tests for her classes at Skyline High School. Ramos, used to texting quickly, was able to do simple assignments online, so at first her schoolwork was very easy.

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The new homeschoolers: More diverse, very committed

The Hechinger Report

When the boys’ no-fee private school reopened to in-person learning more quickly than Gaddie thought was safe, she enrolled them in the tribally controlled public school she’d gone to as a child. The boys, who she refers to as her grandsons, or “takoja” in Lakota, are her nephew’s biological children. They’re average.”.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

Online learning, or the teaching formerly knows as “distance learning” Will this keep growing? Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population. Personalized learning is winning a growing amount of attention, but no off-the-shelf tech solutions.

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The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

The Hechinger Report

Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center Lawyers and advocates across the country say that the practice of forcing a student out of the physical school building and into online learning has emerged as a troubling — and largely hidden — legacy of the pandemic’s shift to virtual learning. It just depends.