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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.” That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says. If a student is still floundering, the system sends a message to a human teacher in the room to come help.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 & 29 Editions)

Doug Levin

graduation rates — up to a record 83 percent — and whether it is real or an elaborate scam. Tagged on: July 23, 2017 ED warns schools of another widespread ransomware attack | Future of Ed Tech e-Newsletter → In light of a recent widespread ransomware attack, the U.S. So why do I still want schools to use them? Unified gets a $3.26-million

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Is the hardest job in education convincing parents to send their kids to a San Francisco public school?

The Hechinger Report

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, public school enrollment in the United States had been trending downward , thanks to birth-rate declines and more restrictive immigration policies, but the decreases rarely exceeded half a percentage point. Not this specific conversation, of course, but ones like it.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 17, 2017 E-learning day a breeze for tech-savvy students | Dubois County Herald → But for as helpful as the eLearning days can be, Hubster said they probably won’t grow too much in number in the near future. ." " Readers respond.with gusto. That's a lot of computers. " Tagged on: March 13, 2017.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 34 Edition)

Doug Levin

percent) did not offer any entirely online courses to high school students during the 2015-16 school year. Tagged on: August 26, 2017 The Secret to a Good Robot Teacher | The New York Times → Why is educational technology such a disappointment? public high schools (42.5 percent offered ‘all classes online.’

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 34 Edition)

Doug Levin

percent) did not offer any entirely online courses to high school students during the 2015-16 school year. Tagged on: August 26, 2017 The Secret to a Good Robot Teacher | The New York Times → Why is educational technology such a disappointment? public high schools (42.5 percent offered ‘all classes online.’

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via KPCC : “ Ref Rodriguez has given up the role of president of the Los Angeles Unified School Board – but is not resigning his seat on the board altogether – one week after the announcement he’d face felony charges for alleged campaign finance violations during his 2015 run for office.” ” Mmmhmmm.