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Current Trends in Education

eSchool News

Integration of Edtech Tools: The increased use of educational technology tools and platforms to facilitate online learning, collaboration, and communication. This includes video conferencing, learning management systems, and interactive content creation tools. PBL studios foster critical thinking, creativity, and teamwork.

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Inside a Student’s Hunt for His Own Learning Data

Edsurge

That didn’t stop Bryan Short, who was a student at the University of British Columbia in 2016 when he got curious to know what information the learning management system at his university had collected on him and how it was being used. So you decided you would start looking into some of the data that the system had collected on you?

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School of Me: Letting students study what they want, when they want is the latest education trend

The Hechinger Report

Baker, associate professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of the new Penn Center for Learning Analytics. Related: Despite its high-tech profile, Summit charter network makes teachers, not computers, the heart of personalized learning. based education reform advocacy group.

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The Growing Role of Technology in Personalized Learning

MindShift

The computer system does this by constantly assessing how a particular student answers questions and what kind of lesson most engages that student. But for that concept to work, a child must spend a lot of time on the computer, feeding the system with data that the software uses to improve itself. based education reform advocacy group.

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The Histories of Personalized Learning

Hack Education

” Or it dates to the Gates Foundation’s funding grants and political advocacy in the early 2000s. I want to talk to you today about the history of personalized learning – in no small part because it’s taken on such political and financial and rhetorical significance. Take your pick. Take your pick. Self-control.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “An Education Department plan to begin cutting large debt collection firms out of the student loan system is on hold after Congress warned against move.” Via Wired : “How Silicon Valley Fuels an Informal Caste System.” ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. As we move forward with new technologies in learning analytics, how and who will be evaluating the claims that people put forward?”. Course Signals.

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