article thumbnail

3 Hottest Posts Everyone's Reading

The Innovative Educator

Haven’t been keeping up with The Innovative Educator? Read that post and discover why the data around the population charter schools serve is misleading, the truth about student performance at charter schools, evidence about their lack of transparency, what the true intent of charters was meant to be, and more. Don’t worry. The reason?

article thumbnail

Testing and the future of education: Anya Kamenetz on Future Trends Forum #6

Bryan Alexander

Now, data-driven testing is enormous and growing, which gives rise to important questions: who owns testing data? what happens to user privacy and data? The tool gathers data down to the level of a student’s individual private browsing and search history, both on school premises and elsewhere – i.e., at home.

Trends 40
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

4 Amazing Google Tools to Help You Engage Your Students

EdTechTeam

Only the student’s work will end up on the Drawing itself, and this means that if the student embeds or downloads this Drawing to use somewhere like an eportfolio, etc., From collecting data to charting results by student or group, the possibilities are endless. Once students collect the data, then the real learning can begin.

Google 78
article thumbnail

Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

It was a powerful gathering of campus leaders and practitioners, organized around a common focus on liberal education. I helped start the conference with a half-day workshop on “How Technology Can Enhance Liberal Education: The State of the Art in 2016.” Consensus was: next steps, the future of tech and liberal education.

article thumbnail

Nampa School District 131 becomes first in Idaho to implement the itslearning LMS

eSchool News

According to Dr. Nicole MacTavish, assistant superintendent for teaching and learning at Nampa SD, it was the system’s ability to centralize so many resources, data, and processes – and interact with other district systems – that sold them on itslearning. “We

LMS 40
article thumbnail

5 Tips for Using Google Apps to Go Paperless

Gaggle Speaks

Google Apps for Education offers students and teachers the opportunity to create and share without ever picking up pen and paper. Here are five ways to use Google Apps for Education to go paperless: Try only using Forms instead of paper surveys and questionnaires. Use Drive as a document repository and to gather data from Forms.

Google 40
article thumbnail

Who’s Playing Matchmaker Between Students and Employers?

Edsurge

The role of higher education, they argue, is to prepare students for their fifth job—not their first. But this argument is losing steam as employers, parents and policymakers increasingly question the value of the degree, and students are faced with a panoply of nontraditional educational alternatives on the path to employment.