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

MAY 13, 2016

The New Yorker profiles Sphero ’s learn-to-code toy for kids but says dumb things about Seymour Papert’s Logo so I’m not sure why I’m even linking to this. Via Techcrunch : “ Lilwil ’s personalized learning engine teaches teachers how to teach.” ” So that’s.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The story examined a proposed practice: “Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).” And digital bits have replaced the need to cut down trees to make paper and waste ink to create those books.”

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