How to Help Educational Technologies Talk to Each Other
The Consortium for School Networking has launched a toolkit to help school districts improve their ability for systems and applications to easily share content.
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Dueling studies of Teach to One: Math highlighted a divide over whether personalized-learning models should prioritize grade-level proficiency or academic growth.
January 23, 2019
Educators and Artificial Intelligence: "Err on the Side of Caution," Says RAND Researcher
AI-powered tools may augment teachers, a new RAND report argues--but only if big concerns around bias and transparency are first addressed.
August 17, 2017
Ed-Tech Companies Should Open Algorithms to Scrutiny, Report Suggests
A new National Education Policy Center report calls for stronger regulations around the use of algorithms in personalized learning and ed-tech software.
March 16, 2017
Research Review: Which Blended-Learning Software Actually Works?
The Regional Education Laboratory Central reviewed studies of 14 online and blended-learning programs used to differentiate instruction.
October 31, 2016
Tracing Personalized Learning Research Back to the 1970s
What can decades-old research into "mastery learning" and the "Personalized System of Instruction" tell schools about contemporary approaches to personalized learning?
August 16, 2016
CliffsNotes Goes Digital, Personalized...For Some Products
The popular yellow-cover study-guide series is offering a personalized, digital subscription service for its test-prep materials, but not its better-known literature-review guides.
July 22, 2016
Researchers Target Brain-Scanning Technology to Improve Ed. Software
A team at Carnegie Mellon University is using brain-activity patterns to better understand the mental processes students use to solve math problems.
June 08, 2016
Harvard Researchers Probe Student Time Spent Using DreamBox Math Software
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Personalized Learning for Preschool: IBM, Sesame Workshop Team Up
A new partnership hopes to marry IBM's "cognitive computing" technology and Sesame Street's educational materials to create new products capable of personalizing learning for children from birth to age 5.
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