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AI Is Everywhere. Now It Wants to Teach You Chinese.

Edsurge

A growing number of vendors are offering AI-powered language-learning apps to companies and the general public ( Speexx , Busuu , Duolingo ) for hundreds of languages, but Ponddy’s products were developed specifically for secondary and university teachers of Mandarin.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Think the private school startup Bridge International Academies that operates in Africa, for example, which Peg Tyre documented so devastatingly in The New York Times Magazine this summer.). And then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s venture philanthropy firm and its commitment to fund “personalized learning.”

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 19, 2017 Textbooks could be history as schools switch to free online learning | Philly.com → Garnet Valley is a district in the vanguard of a nationwide movement to ditch traditional textbooks for open-source educational resources on the web. million records going up for sale on the Dark Web.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. All three are outstanding (and free), but perhaps the most immediately useful to readers of this blog is Civic Online Reasoning or COR. You can now find out.

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The Emergency Home Learning Summit Final Week - 24 Amazing Interviews Start Tomorrow

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

In 2003, before the existence of YouTube, she founded ProjectExplorer.org, a free multimedia website designed to educate primary and secondary school students about global issues and world cultures and histories. Over the years, she has written for everyone from The Wall Street Journal to Mad Magazine. airing on Discovery in 2020.)

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” Via Education Week : “Brooklyn Students Protest Use of Online Learning Platform Designed by Summit Learning.” ” Via the NY Magazine : “Brooklyn Students Are Protesting Silicon Valley’s Favorite Education Program.”

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Robert Reich on Student Brains, Civic Education and Restoring Pathways to the Middle Class

Edsurge

EdSurge sat down with Reich last week at the annual summit for Course Hero, an online study platform, to talk about online learning, civic education and how higher education can create new pathways to the middle class. By the time somebody is ready for post-secondary education, it's almost too late for many.

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