Educationally Innovative Technology -“Adaptive learning” is a popular edtech buzzword, used by curriculum and learning management systems alike. Enthusiasts promise this technology has the ability to make educational experiences more personal, efficient and scalable.

Yet, there’s a big problem. There’s very little clarity around what this technology does, doesn’t do and how it actually works. Part of the problem stems from a semantic black box, filled with terms like “algorithms” and “predictive analytics” that offer only a vague explanation of how adaptive learning tools work.

Watching educators and entrepreneurs struggle to communicate just what this promising technology was doing, we asked two questions: What’s inside the adaptive learning black box? How do the tools on the market differ?…

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Educationally Innovative Technology – Additional, Supporting Information:

What it Takes To Provide Individual, Sustained, Performance Improvement

Traditional Teaching and Why it, Most Times, Won’t Result in Individual Advanced Performance Improvement Outcomes:

One Size Fits ALL

Sage on the Stage

Teaching to The Middle

Strategically, Habitually and Perpetually, Missing the Real Problem

“Disrupting Traditional PD.” Practice What You Preach!

Percent of Ed Tech Leaders Surveyed Whose Districts Have Invested in Personalized Learning: 97%

The Paradox of Classroom Technology: Despite Proliferation and Access, Students Not Using Technology for Learning

Incremental vs Revolutionary Transformation: How School Innovation Works, the case of New Tech Schools

Teachers Working Harder, Not Smarter

The Teacher Curse No One Wants to Talk About

What is Educationally Innovative

Best Practices Education

Student Performance Improvement

Culture Change: How 200+ K-12 Schools Have Scaled Systems and Processes 

How to Scale Personalized Learning

Pedagogy Ed Tech

Educationally Innovative Software

Supporting Research

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Tom McDonald, tsm@centurytel.net; 608-788-5144; Skype: tsmw5752