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Zap Zap Math–Gamify any Math Curriculum

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Zap Zap Math is a free gamified way to teach math skills that’s tied to many national and international standards (like Common Core). Students direct their learning with a unique space-themed avatar (called a ‘mathling’) that identifies their work and keeps them engaged.

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What are this year’s top trends at SXSW EDU?

eSchool News

From Common Core to the SAT, the call for accountability is moving away from the drivers of the past two decades as we look to reflect the more holistic attributes of student development and grapple with the adverse impact of high-stakes testing. Related sessions: Active Learning for Engagement and Effectiveness.

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How Effective for Learning are the Apps we Use?

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With this knowledge, administrators can leverage their data to make smart decisions about using the apps that will best improve learning. Baker, Director of the Penn Center for Learning Analytics and Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, studied 1.4M Dr. Ryan S.

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The Growing Role of Technology in Personalized Learning

MindShift

Knewton’s claim to fame (and some are skeptical of it) is that it provides the right difficulty and the right presentation, and can find whatever style students seem to like best. Baker, associate professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of the new Penn Center for Learning Analytics.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Course Signals, a software product developed by Purdue University, was designed to boost “student success” by using learning analytics to inform teachers, students, and staff to potential problems, labeling students with a red/yellow/green scheme to indicate their danger in failing a course. Course Signals.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Chalkbeat : “They rejected multi-state Common Core exams. ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. “New research suggests whether information is presented electronically or on paper affects the way we process it,” says the Pacific Standard.