Google’s Adaptive Learning Technologies Help Amplify Educators’ Instruction

The average U.S. high school class has 30 students, according to research from the National Council on Teacher Quality, and while each student learns in their own way, practice and specific feedback are repeatedly shown to be effective in modern classrooms. With interactive tools like practice sets, students can receive one-to-one feedback and support without ever leaving an assignment. This saves the educators time, while also providing insight into students’ learning processes and patterns.
Achieving both aims at once sounds like a tall order, but adaptive learning technologies help to do…

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
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Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review:
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Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times:
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Washington Post:
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
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