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- Smartphones and tablets become common in classrooms
- Apps like Khan Academy and Duolingo start gaining popularity
- Impact: Learning becomes portable and personalized
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- Platforms like Coursera and edX launch
- Millions of students worldwide gain free or affordable access to higher education courses
- Impact: Democratized education, expanded lifelong learning.
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- Google introduces classroom, Docs, Drive and Gmail
- Rapid participation in schools worldwide -Impact: simplifies assignments, feedback and digital cooperation
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- Tools like expeditions allow virtual field trips
- AR apps bring interactive science, history and geography lessons to life
- Impact: Makes learning immersive and experiential
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- Shift to online platforms: Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet.
- Massive growth in EdTech tools like Seesaw, Near pod and Flip grid
- Impact: redefined "school", accelerated adoption of digital learning worldwide.
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- Ai- Driven platforms rise and start personalizing pacing and content (e.g. Dreambox, Smart Sparrow)
- Chatbots and intelligent tutoring systems start appearing in education
- Impact: learning tailored to individual student needs.