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3 lessons from data on how students are actually using educational apps and software at school

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is a for-profit company that sells data analysis to public schools. The company hired Ryan Baker, director of the Penn Center for Learning Analytics , and another data scientist to mine the data and create a national snapshot of technology use for the 2017-18 school year. A report was released in November 2018.

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Using Data to Support Personalized Learning Pathways

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Now, the mission is to figure out what data to track and how to use it. One key piece of information is how students are using educational technology, such as when do they access their devices, what programs are they using, and how long they use them. They also needed to have an overall program managing the data flow.

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Managing and Sharing Your Education Data Effectively

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She also has extensive experience helping K-12 schools implement 1:1 programs and in disseminating problem-based and project-based learning methodologies that focus on helping each student develop his or her own voice. He spent most of his career as CIO/CTO with the Sharon and Newton Public Schools in Massachusetts. Join the Community.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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From the SPARC press release : “Congress Funds $5 Million Open Textbook Grant Program in 2018 Spending Bill.” Via The New York Times : “ Karlie Kloss Teaches Teenage Girls How to Code.” Andrea Zafirakou has won the 2018 Global Teacher Prize. Soon to be The Atlantic’s Adam Harris.

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A 140-Year-Old School Partnered With a 10-Year-Old School. Here’s What Happened.

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These student-driven concepts were part of a design studio—“Super Enabling Devices”—which ran in October 2018 at Kelvinside Academy (KA), a 140-year-old independent school in Scotland. The first proof points for the partnership took the shape of two summer schools, one in 2017 and the other in 2018. There is no “right” answer.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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I think it is worthwhile, as the decade draws to a close, to review those stories and to see how much (or how little) things have changed. You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. After all, Amazon knows how to run online marketplaces; Amazon knows how to sell texts.

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