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The Best Edtech for Students Is Backed by Research. Here’s What to Look For.

Edsurge

As researchers focusing on education technology, we see this often: interactive whiteboards covered in posters, desktop computers holding up plants, older devices that do not work with a newer assessment system. One recent study of school spending estimated that up to two-thirds of software licenses are never activated.

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The science of catching up

The Hechinger Report

But studies do point toward which strategies are most effective, how they can best be implemented — and what approaches might be a waste of time and money. Studies show it has produced big achievement gains for students when the tutoring occurs every day or almost every day. No catch-up strategy can possibly benefit all students.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

If they are right, it would mean short-circuiting the famous “10,000-hour rule” based on studies by education researcher Anders Ericsson and popularized by bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell in his book “Outliers.” If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.”

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New learning environments

Learning with 'e's

Some debated the merits of MOOCs, high attrition rates and the legitimacy of participating without completing a course. An inevitable comparison was made between the earlier cMOOCs (which were largely connectivist and student centred in their ethos) and the later xMOOCs (which are more commercially oriented and arguably less student centred).

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. Policymakers will be looking to leverage their existing data sources to better understand those trends and the remaining gaps, and they will continue to look for innovative approaches to learning and ways to assess the needs of students.

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More than a Checkmark

MIND Research Institute

Merely checking whether an edtech product “works or not” fails to capture what the studies should also inform: nuances of different educational scenarios, different amounts of usage, and the range of outcomes for different learners. Implementation I mplementation goes beyond simply the initial assignment of the edtech product licenses.

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65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. Policymakers will be looking to leverage their existing data sources to better understand those trends and the remaining gaps, and they will continue to look for innovative approaches to learning and ways to assess the needs of students.

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