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How AI Can Foster Creative Thinking in the Classroom and Beyond

Edsurge

For many years, educators have envisioned personalized learning as a way to tailor education to each student's unique needs. AI has the potential to transform classrooms by offering personalized learning experiences that align with individual strengths, interests and learning needs.

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Agency: Important for Students and Educators

A Principal's Reflections

Empowerment and ownership need and should be associated with learning to increase relevancy, value, meaning, and outcomes. The desire to increase agency in the form of voice, choice, and advocacy should be viewed as just as important for educators (teachers and administrators) as it is for students.

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Student Agency: Moving From Talk to Action

A Principal's Reflections

We were able to transform the learning culture of a traditional school and in the process got results while becoming an example that others emulated. Image credit: https://andrewherrick.files.wordpress.com If we are to improve learning and ultimately school-based outcomes student agency needs to be a real element of school culture.

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Edtech, Equity, and Innovation: A Critical Look in the Mirror

Digital Promise

Instead, we tend to excuse inadequate or unsavory outcomes as necessary growing pains in the pursuit of “innovation.” Why is it that, despite often resulting in the same or much worse outcomes, virtual schools and edtech products are labeled as “innovation” rather than failure? Let’s start a movement.

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Giving students a say

The Hechinger Report

He decides whether to tackle a math lesson or a science one, for example, taking into account his own interests as well as his responsibilities. Now, if he finishes a history lesson first, for example, he goes on to the next one – or switches to another subject. It’s not like you’re learning different stuff,” Roshawn said.

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Despite mediocre records, for-profit online charter schools are selling parents on staying virtual

The Hechinger Report

Online charters typically lag behind other schools on measures including student academic outcomes and graduation rates, and have also been plagued by high student turnover. For 12 years we’ve been documenting their disastrous outcomes, and they’re just resilient.”. Vermonica Murphy with her son, Ernest Jr.

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Some Thoughts on the UNESCO OER Recommendation

Iterating Toward Openness

Third, the Recommendation comments positively on the ability of information and communications technologies (ICT) to “open possibilities for OER… to enable personalized learning.” For example, the government makes sustained investment in creating and maintaining roads, but it doesn’t do this work itself.

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