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Schools Drop Acellus Learning Platform Over ‘Glaring’ Offensive Content

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The content in question includes a first-grade language arts video lesson that shows an Acellus instructor teaching about the letter “G.” As with any distance learning program, teachers at the school level are also reviewing content before they are assigned, similarly to how textbooks are used for instruction.”

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How AI Can Help Educators Test Whether Their Teaching Materials Work

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One example in particular is getting students that are taking, say, an online chemistry course to create a multiple choice question for us. And so if you have a course with 5,000 students in it, and everyone elects to create a multiple-choice question, you now have 5,000 new multiple-choice questions for that chemistry course.

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Achieve3000 updates blended learning, differentiated instruction tools

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To support schools and districts across the country and around the world, the company has created state-customized editions of its patented, nonfiction blended learning literacy solutions: · KidBizPro®, TeenBizPro®, and EmpowerPro® for English language arts, science and social studies in grades two through 12. Textbook Alignment Courses.

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Standardized Tests Aren’t Going Anywhere. So What Do We Do?

Cult of Pedagogy

We recognize that there’s something fundamentally different about large-scale, externally mandated standardized tests that rely on multiple-choice questions. “ As a concrete example of why that synchronization is necessary, multiple states allow a high degree of local control over the curriculum.

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Videos: Why, How, Options

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Rather than check out of the world, viewers willingly dig deeply into the topic in a way that can’t happen from a textbook or lecture. Once you accept the reality that learning can take place outside of a textbook, reading, or notetaking, it’s not hard to see the great value of videos.

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential.

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65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential.