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US Edtech Funding Already Nears $1 Billion in First Half of 2019

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For the first half of 2019, the industry saw $962 million raised across 65 deals, the highest amount of funding at the halfway mark since at least 2015. edtech companies in the first half of 2019. The first half of 2019 saw 123 deals of over $100 million. Our analysis for the first half of 2019 only looks at U.S.

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Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow

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In its statement, the publisher said Smart Sparrow’s technology will support its capabilities in adaptive learning and add more interactive and immersive features for its digital books. student and teaching assistant, began building his own homegrown adaptive tutoring technologies. higher education courseware business.

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K–12 Departments Work Collaboratively to Support New Pedagogies

EdTech Magazine

Tue, 03/12/2019 - 13:54. A 2017 Medium post from the Office of Educational Technology laments the lack of clarity about the term “personalized learning”: “The lack of a consistent definition and language for a relatively complex idea has hampered both understanding and effective ­implementation,” the article states. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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5 EdTech Trends Educators Need To Watch In 2019

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The adaptive learning paradigm that collects and learns from students’ data to improve teaching is a double-edged sword. While the education sector remains one of the most flexible industries when it comes to integrating technology, the concerns surrounding privacy and digital ethics are also a challenge.

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INTERVIEW: Digital learning trends that are reshaping EdTech

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Graham Glass, CEO of CYPHER LEARNING, participated to a live event for Digital Learning Day 2019. The event was hosted by Phill Bevan, Community Advisor at VETR , a digital learning community for the Australian vocational education and training sector. Phill: The first question is about adaptive personalized learning.

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Fostering metacognition and AI integration for ELLs

eSchool News

Research shows that explicitly teaching metacognitive strategies improves student autonomy and learning outcomes, particularly when paired with AI tools that provide real-time, personalized feedback (Fischer, Hmelo-Silver, Goldman, & Reimann, 2018). Together, these strategies empower ELLs to take ownership of their learning and thrive.

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Family support is key to closing learning gaps

eSchool News

The recently released National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores, oftenreferred to as the nation’s report card, show a lack of progress in math and reading achievementwith results continuing to lag pre-pandemic (2019) levels.Study.com’s survey provides educator context to the factors affecting student achievement asmost teachers (..)

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