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Our digital future 9: Omni-choice learning

Learning with 'e's

I quite like the idea of 'omni-choice' learning, where each learner can shape their pathways individually to suit their expectations, needs, approaches to study and personal contexts. At present it is quite impossible for any educator to tailor-make study programmes for individual students. Unported License.

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

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While machine learning and automation are obviating the need for learners to memorize content and develop routine skills, current edtech solutions still focus on helping learners develop these capabilities, he says. Rise of the robots Siemens has both an academic and an industry perspective on digital learning.

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Top 8 Advantages of an Interactive STEM Curriculum

Kitaboo on EdTech

By providing them with enough knowledge and guiding them in the right direction, we will have more students opting for these branches of studies in future and developing many new innovative tools for the benefit of life around us. Related: 5 Ways to Use Learning Analytics in K-12 Education. Improves Critical Thinking Skills.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Techcrunch : “This tortoise shows kids that robot abuse is bad.” ” “ Robot abuse ”?! Via Bryan Alexander : “ Robots , buyouts, and spinoffs: four short stories for the future of education and technology.”

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A 140-Year-Old School Partnered With a 10-Year-Old School. Here’s What Happened.

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Additionally, NuVu’s learning model has a profoundly empathic dimension: by addressing real-world challenges, students acquire a personal understanding of the world and how they can impact it. NuVu first came on KA’s radar in 2017 when Ian Munro, the Scottish school’s rector, was studying at Harvard.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Chalkbeat : “ Betsy DeVos ’s first Detroit visit featured Girl Scouts, robots, and talk of beluga whales.” ” That’s Inder Verma at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Activate Learning has acquired Conceptua Math. “Soon.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” @14prinsp @KateMfD @audreywatters @gsiemens VC-mediated "consent" for academic studies "Incorrect Response!" ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. Via Education Week : “ Charter, Alternative, Virtual Schools Account for Most Low-Grad-Rate Schools, Study Finds.”