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Digital Learning Tool Personalizes Lessons For Incarcerated Youth

In a place where academic skills vary greatly, adaptive learning technology can help personalize courses. An initiative led by the U.S. Department of Education is building the digital content. But many youth incarceration centers still need computers.

Watch A Great Short Film On The Future Of Technology And Education

We’re still teaching our kids using a 20th-century paradigm, but many visionaries–like the ones in this video–have plans to take our advances in computing and technology and use them to explode the idea of what education can be.

What Will The Ed Tech Revolution Look Like?

Predictions for how the next 15 years are going to change how children learn, at school and at home.

Personalization And Analytics: The Future Of Education?

Education startup Knewton, which learns from students and makes personalized lessons for them, has teamed up with Pearson, one of the country’s major curriculum designers. Together, they’re trying to create a new system where we can measure that students are learning what–and how–is best for them.

EdSurge: Word Jousts, Groupons For Higher Ed, And The Flipped Classroom

Knewton’s “Adaptive Learning” Technology Spreads To Tens Of Thousands Of Students At ASU, Penn State, SUNY, More

5 Startups to Watch

How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education

Free online courses, Wiki universities, Facebook-style tutoring networks — American higher education is changing.