Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 30, 2017

Zap Zap Math is a free gamified way to teach math skills that’s tied to many national and international standards (like Common Core). Students direct their learning with a unique space-themed avatar (called a ‘mathling’) that identifies their work and keeps them engaged.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Impact tracks the link between student usage on a particular app and how that may or may not influence their performance on assessments. Educators need to know which products are likely to have a positive impact on learning for their students. Dr. Ryan S. Clarity will really help us guide our next steps.”

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

He also talked about how he thinks policy shifts like the implementation of the common-core standards and the adoption of “open” educational resources are likely to affect the K-12 market, and his company’s work. Recent studies, including one by Stanford’s CREDO project , have shown virtual schools producing poor results.

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MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

The computer system does this by constantly assessing how a particular student answers questions and what kind of lesson most engages that student. Many programs and products produce reams of “research,” but they’re just sales materials masquerading as effectiveness studies. I see their confidence level take off.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

Stephen Downes works in the Learning and Performance Support Systems program at the National Research Council, a multi-year effort to develop personal learning technology and learning analytics. The Boom of Real and Virtual Creation. By Kathy Schrock, Wilkes University.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. As we move forward with new technologies in learning analytics, how and who will be evaluating the claims that people put forward?”. The Intel Education Study App has now too been discontinued.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

” The Whiteboard Advisors’ latest “Education Insider” report ( PDF ) is on assessment trends, higher education, and the presidential campaigns. ” Via Chalkbeat : “They rejected multi-state Common Core exams. ” Via Chalkbeat : “They rejected multi-state Common Core exams.

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