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From “Data Driven” to “Evidence Driven”

The Principal of Change

In my last post, “Common Assessments” vs “Common Understandings” , I was reminded of how powerful comments are on a blog, and why blogging is a hugely powerful tool for not only sharing your learning, but learning from others. 2 What I think we mean is that we are looking for “common understandings”, not “common assessments”.

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Questions of Compliance or Empowerment?

The Principal of Change

This type of assessment is not about understanding what a students knows and reporting on it, but it is a tool used for learning. ”, reminded me of something I recently read on Will Richardson’s blog : “Schools place an overwhelming emphasis on teaching children to solve problems correctly, not creatively.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2017, just a week before Christmas, the New Media Consortium abruptly announced its immediate closure “because of apparent errors and omissions by its former Controller and Chief Financial Officer.” Good for you. with Pigeons.

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Designing Organizations to Support Tech on Campus #SXSWedu

EdTechSandyK

MOOCs, technology infusion projects, online masters or pathways to credit, research. Engage the expertise of faculty to assess if tech you are using is effective. It's difficult to assess overall efficacy when data is not transparent. Analyzing tech use should help us assess teaching effectiveness. Unported License.

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20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic]

Shake Up Learning

I have also included details for each of the twenty ways in this blog post. I try not to get too technical on this blog, but it’s important to know there are certain domain settings that you will need to make some of the ideas in this post a reality. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). © Shake Up Learning 2017.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Student-Loan Borrowers , by Age Group, Amount Owed, and Repayment Status, 2017.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep hyping that MOOC thing. Via Edsurge : “ MOOCs Are No Longer Massive. The company has raised $182.3

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

From the press release : “FBI Releases 2017 Hate Crime Statistics.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). From the Coursera blog : “Announcing ‘ AI for Everyone ’: a new course from deeplearning.ai More robot news up in the MOOC section above. on Coursera.”