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Study: Students work harder when they think they are being watched

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A photo from a 2018 report shows a teacher using Lumilo smart glasses, developed at Carnegie Mellon University, in an experiment. If only teachers can be more informed during class about things they can’t normally easily monitor, then students might learn better. Student psychology appears to be at play.

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How Effective for Learning are the Apps we Use?

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As tablets, Chromebooks, and other handheld devices are employed in classrooms, instruction relies more and more on apps instead of on traditional computer-based programs. Join us for What Ed Tech Apps Work Best for Learning? on Monday, November 5, 2018 12:00pm Pacific time, 3:00pm Eastern. Dr. Ryan S.

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

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One of its products monitors which websites students visit and which apps they’re clicking on their tablets. 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.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“ Microsoft Hopes to Revive Its Education Tablet Efforts With the New $399 Surface Go,” says Edsurge. Jeff Sessions remarks on student data privacy laws and how they may inhibit school shooting prevention efforts pic.twitter.com/h3mOcqWo1F — Caitlin Emma (@caitlinzemma) July 11, 2018.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Although sometimes talked about as a “movement,” Mozilla’s Open Badges Project was really more of a technical specification, one that was transferred from Mozilla to IMS Global Learning Consortium in 2017. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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