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How to enhance students’ work-ready skills

Neo LMS

Robotic or holographic avatar designer. Robot operator. Below you can find a full list of important skills extracted from the Future of Skills report , created by Pearson. You can even go beyond this, and maybe plan a visit for students at a robotics lab or at a local technology company. Cyborg designer.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

“Fake news,” “robots coming for our jobs,” “the new economy,” “surveillance capitalism,” “personalization,” “the cult of innovation,” and so on – these are all narratives intertwined in the power of major technology companies, platforms, data, and algorithms.

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Jose Ferreira Steps Down as Knewton CEO, Eyes Next Education Startup

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Learn more about its different definitions and applications in our special report on adaptive learning. These partners range from household names such as Pearson and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, to upstarts like Waggle. It’s a dubious assertion, although the company did try to trademark the term.).

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I Moved a Drone With My Mind. Soon Your Students Will Too.

Edsurge

I stood facing the drone, about to face-off with a little robot. When I asked David Pearson, a British clinical psychologist who works with children facing adversity, if regular mindfulness practice would have helped me fly my drone his answer was “Yes, it would.” My mind-control-drone-moving experience was nothing like this.

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With Eyes on Asia, Kidaptive Raises $19.1M to Grow Its ‘Invisible’ Adaptive Learning Platform

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Of this amount, Woongjin invested $5 million in return for a 10 percent stake in Kidaptive, reports The Korea Herald. Once the industry’s poster child for adaptive learning, Knewton boasted working with dozens of publishers, including Pearson and McGraw-Hill. And to support its work, Kidaptive has raised $19.1

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Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later

Iterating Toward Openness

In the second, the work is all graded automatically and you have some reporting view of where the class is succeeding and where they’re struggling. We think platforms like Pearson’s MyLab and Cengage’s MindTap are the enemy. Much of the OER movement has a bad attitude about platforms. No 5Rs and no open pedagogy.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

This is part eleven of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual “Internet Trends” report. Much of what Meeker says in this year’s report about education is placed under her category “gaming.”

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