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The onscreen keyboard is pretty amazing in iOS. As long as you let go, it does a really good job of autocorrecting your typing. It also learns the words you type and how you type them. I have a nephew named Keaton and I live in Kenton, and my iPhone always corrects then correctly. You…
The robots are coming, are you ready?
Information technology evolves through disruption waves. First the computer, then the web and eventually social networks and smartphones all had the power to revolutionize how people live and how businesses operate. They destroyed companies that weren’t able to adapt, while creating new winners in growing markets. Source: The AI disruption wave | TechCrunch Manufacturing output…
The Inconvenient Truth About Personalized Learning – Education Next : Education Next
In a new white paper out last week, “A blueprint for breakthroughs,” Michael Horn and I argue that simply asking what works stops short of the real question at the heart of a truly personalized system: what works, for which students, in what circumstances? Without this level of specificity and understanding of contextual factors, we’ll be…
It’s OK to say I don’t know
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. No one has the answers to everything. Some people few this as a sign of weakness, but it is actually a sign of strength. By admitting you need to look something up, you…