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

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Already, the Sydney, Australia-based company has pulled back on its social media presence. 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.

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Creating Future Ready Schools and Classrooms

Tom Murray

In future ready schools, technology and digital learning expand access to high-quality, ongoing, job-embedded opportunities for professional learning for teachers, administrators, and other education professionals. Non-traditional forms of professional learning such as the use of social media and Edcamps are valued, not dismissed.

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New book chapter in Multimedia Learning Theory!

Dangerously Irrelevant

Other tools to facilitate effective learning and teaching will include system-provided technologies such as open access content repositories, streaming multimedia servers, online adaptive learning systems, and robust, social media-driven collaboration channels for students, classroom teachers, and administrators.

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ASU Agrees to Independent Investigation of Its Online Textbook Practices

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And he said he and other professors were told to fail at least 30 percent of students, a move that would set a baseline against which to measure a separate adaptive-learning experiment championed by the provost, Mark Searle. Goegan’s email went viral and led many students across the country to hail him as a hero on social media.

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Five benefits and challenges of classroom technology

Hapara

Differentiation and personalization Not all students learn at the same pace or in the same way. Technology allows educators to differentiate instruction and create personalized learning experiences to meet individual student needs. Social media, games, sports scores and other non-academic content can divert learners’ attention.

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The 3 Biggest Remote Teaching Concerns We Need to Solve Now

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Businesses and organizations are providing free access to digital tools and apps for teaching and learning (see THE Journal’s ever-growing list of Free Resources for Schools During COVID-19 Outbreak ). Some schools rushed to get laptops and tablets to students in need.

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Will AI Shrink Disparities in Schools, or Widen Them?

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Through interviews, she’s found that some educators link AI to social media and cellphones. Some educators connect AI to broader changes that they perceive have been harmful to students, says Robin Lake, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education.

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