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How to Assess Learning in a Pandemic

Edsurge

Even during the pandemic’s early days, some professors decided to toss out their grade books , figuring that high-stress assessments weren’t appropriate given the uncertain circumstances, which saw students sent away from campuses, sometimes without tech tools or internet access. And the goal was always to increase intrinsic motivation.

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STUDENT VOICE: Teachers assign us work that relies on rote memorization, then tell us not to use artificial intelligence

The Hechinger Report

Rather than browbeat students for using AI, maybe educators should outsmart AI by reimagining education so that it requires more creativity and critical thought, the aspects that separate people from robots. Now that I’m older, these include Regents exams, New York State tests and Advanced Placement assessments.

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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy

Hack Education

I am sorry that we're all kicking off fall term online again — well, online is better than dead, of course. This is already happening, of course, with or without the pandemic. Is it the vast corpus of data that the company has amassed — decades of essays and theses and Wikipedia entries that it uses to assess student work?

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eSchool News

Aperture was on hand to demonstrate its scalable SEL solution for K-12 that grows with students and staff, from teacher-based ratings and strategies at the elementary level, to student- and teacher-facing assessment and strategy software for high school students and staff.

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Imagined futures 5: Robot teachers

Learning with 'e's

Clark was right of course. This doesn't mean that robots have no place in the classroom though. Robots (or intelligent systems) can be very useful when they are tasked to complete some of the functions that teachers previously performed. Responses from the robot teacher might be limited, perfunctory, or even non-existent.

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Preparation for the New World of Work

A Principal's Reflections

With the rapid pace of technological change, specifically advances in robotics and artificial intelligence, it is nearly impossible to hypothesize the types of jobs that will be available. This means re-integrating trade-based courses and programs that use to be the norm in virtually every school. We are at a crossroads in education.

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New Provider Offers Low-Cost Online Courses. But Will the Credit Transfer?

Edsurge

Aaron Rasmussen, co-founder of MasterClass, this week announced the launch of Outlier, an online provider of university-level courses. That’s somewhat similar to credit-eligible courses hosted by edX , each of which is associated with a specific accredited institution. Student assessments, Rasmussen says, are graded by “robots.”

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