eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Government and Policy Updates: Stay informed about government policies and updates related to education. Changes in education policy can significantly impact teaching practices, curriculum development, and school management. Education Podcasts and Web Series: Listen to education-focused podcasts and watch web series.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

Speaking to an audience of researchers from the education industry last week at the Bay Area Learning Analytics Conference , held at the University of California at Berkeley, Deb shared how Chegg uses a Stanford-built tool to try to keep out students who just want an online tutor to do their homework. “You

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 14, 2023

AI in Schools and Classrooms Edweek shared in a 2020 article , In education, AI can be found in learning analytic platforms, online courseware, voice assistants, and support structures within other apps. We must continue to learn and be diligent about protecting our students and ourselves. © Shake Up Learning 2023.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 15, 2021

He has worked extensively at the policy level with a number of State Departments of Education, Ministries of Education, and non-profits, and was appointed to the Education Technology Task Force formed by a previous California State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

For example, learning analytics may look at how many times someone has watched a video and for how long. The choices of which data to collect are usually made by the techies and policy makers, but not teachers or students. Some Critical Questions. This post is getting long.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Each year, a panel of education experts, convened by the New Media Consortium and CoSN, takes a deep dive into the trends driving ed-tech in every quarter, from Silicon Valley testing grounds to policy circles to actual classroom use. Sometimes the panelists get it right. Makerspaces eluded everybody until they showed up at school doorsteps.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 6, 2021

To address this, the data team created policies that emphasize legitimate educational interest for each situation. Currently, he is leading the development of CatchOn’s learning analytics platform and helping districts leverage next-generation learning data to personalize the learning experience for their learners.

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Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

Note: The original version of this piece was published on July 7, 2016 by New America as part of an EdCentral series on the next social contract for education: https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/edcentral/next-social-contract-public-education-needs-new-terms-service/.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 27, 2015

Technologically-based tools provide opportunities for students to learn both in and out of the classroom. The use of technological innovations such as cloud computing, mobile learning, bring?your?own?device Social learning networks, e?portfolios, Several tools are explicitly designed to support teachers.

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Veative

JANUARY 3, 2019

By building on students’ natural aptitude for learning and appealing to their insatiable curiosity, Veative , a global provider of affordable, immersive learning solutions, delivers the necessary last mile push that makes all the difference between an ordinary education and an extraordinary one. Data and intelligent analytics.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

There was also a great deal of learning analytics attached to it. Megan, someone in the audience has asked if you could share a couple of examples of those project to based learning projects that you worked on. Was the faculty member or any teaching assistant involved or was that all student mediated? Simmons: Sure.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2016

Major organizational change—pivoting an institution and its policies and practices—is difficult. The key to success in both of these initiatives—revising our program structure and improving online experience—is that they tie neatly together, with the learning model being an integral part of the digital university.

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Hack Education

JUNE 14, 2016

We can’t talk about corporate interests and ed-tech without talking about politics and policies. Why has this become the cornerstone of education policy? Learning analytics is often framed as a “hot new trend” in education. Why do we test? Why do we measure? Why has this become big business?

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

“The reason these are being marketed as making the process more equitable is, that’s the delusion that’s been adopted in the tech sector,” says Rashida Richardson, director of policy research at the AI Now Institute at New York University. Sometimes an admissions process can be extremely subjective.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). Google also invests in think tanks, the policy and research institutions that are so prolific in Washington DC and so influential in turn in helping to shape policy and the narratives about the future. How is Google influencing policy?

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

I should say that all this is to do with their old learning management system at UBC, which was Blackboard Connect. It might have greater capabilities in terms of learning analytics, but based on what I learned with Connect, I ultimately decided not to opt into using Canvas, and at this point I was a graduate student at UBC.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

He also talked about how he thinks policy shifts like the implementation of the common-core standards and the adoption of “open” educational resources are likely to affect the K-12 market, and his company’s work. But it will be paid for if it demonstrates real value [in]…helping more students to be successful and make progress.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2020

While that particular red flag feature is no longer used by Canvas, Mariachi says she worries that colleges and companies are experimenting with learning analytics in ways that are not transparent and could be prone to algorithmic bias. Just three weeks ago the company hired a privacy attorney, Daisy Bennett, to assist in that work.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The topic names have been modified “for consistency,” the report’s authors say (although I’m a little unclear about some of these choices – how are “mobile learning,” “tablet computing,” and “bring your own device” separate technological developments? Were they adopted?

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Learning to Code. Education Data and Learning Analytics. This series always ends up being incredibly lengthy – I apologize in advance – and this year, it threatens to be even more so. The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012. The Business of Ed-tech. The Maker Movement. The Flipped Classroom. The Battle to Open Textbooks.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2017

Our idea in medicine is to learn what is it about that 70 percent of the people for whom it works, and the 30 percent that it doesn't, so we can now predict which medicine will work in which patient.

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

Or “personalized learning” is the latest and greatest – some new endeavor that will be achieved, not through human attention or agency or through paperwork or policy but through computing technologies. “Personalized learning,” depending on how you define it, dates back to Rousseau.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 16, 2015

So why aren’t more of the best minds in higher education doing more to tap those data streams to improve teaching and learning? Yes, colleges and universities have long used data to help shape policy. The information rarely has anything to do with helping improve student learning in real time.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

Here’s what caught my eye the week of March 6, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. This reversal in policy is a bad decision for all of us." " Hopefully, not shades of future conversations about learning analytics.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Schools, districts and states will work to figure out policy changes to help reduce the inequities in education. The educational sector is now also appreciating the value of data analytics. . –Amy Gulley, M.Ed Literacy and Curriculum, Certified Academic Language Therapist C.A.L.T and IDA Certified Dyslexia Specialist.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

One of the “hot new trends” in education technology is “learning analytics” – this idea that if you collect enough data about students that you can analyze it and in turn algorithmically direct students towards more efficient and productive behaviors, institutions towards more efficient and productive outcomes.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

” The survey was conducted by learning analytics company Civitas Learning. ” Related to a recent story in The Hechinger Report about charter schools with policies that favor enrolling white students, you can now “Search the data on white charters.”

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Education Khan Academy Blackboard Report 43

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

. “High school students will be allowed to carry mace in the 2016–2017 school year after the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education agreed to remove prohibitive language and amend its policy,” the Salisbury Post reports. ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.].

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

And certainly the expectation of many ed-tech products (and increasingly school policy) is that parents will do just this — participate in the incessant monitoring of student data. As we move forward with new technologies in learning analytics, how and who will be evaluating the claims that people put forward?”. 3D Printing.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Some technology companies have joined some of these lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Meanwhile, DREAMers are already being arrested and deported. This software would track and analyze the social media and digital activity of visa holders in order to identify those who might be “high risk.”

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Data Education Software Social Media 78

Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

Officials from 11 states are suing the Obama Administration over the guidance it recently issued regarding transgender bathroom policies and civil rights law. “ Key Tensions in the Field of Learning Analytics ” by Bodong Chen. ” Via Vox : “Do white people want merit-based admissions policies ? .”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

Via Quartz : “A lawyer rewrote Instagram’s privacy policy so kids and parents can have a meaningful talk about privacy.” Via teachonline.ca : “Directory of Vendors of Online Learning Products and Services.” Via EdTech Magazine : “How Learning Analytics Can Help Inform K–12 Decisions.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

“Examining ethical and privacy issues surrounding learning analytics ” by Tony Bates. From this article, I learned that Sal Khan earns more than $540,000 a year. Knowledgemotion has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from ICG Ventures. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance.

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Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

” “Policy-based Privacy is Over,” says Eric Hellman. Some (education policy) history from Sherman Dorn : “The pendulum and the ratchet.” Most certainly food for thought touting the power of “ learning analytics.” “The New Gold Rush?

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