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Schools Are Desperate to Stop Violence. Will These New Guidelines Help?

Edsurge

After the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007, Virginia became the first state to require colleges to conduct threat assessments , later requiring K-12 schools to do the same. A method for schools to figure out which student threats foreshadow violence, threat assessment was adapted from the Secret Service. It’s become pervasive.

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Assessment strategies in higher education- What are formative and summative approaches in student assessment?

Linways Technologies

To do so, they need to have a proper assessment strategy in place. In the absence of a clear mapping between program outcomes and assessment tools, student achievement of program outcomes is inaccurate and unreliable. Conscious efforts need to be made to bring application skills or higher cognitive skills to the assessment.

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Is AI a Pathway to Better Teaching and Learning?

Edsurge

Create Guidelines: Create guidelines for the use of generative AI, ensuring accessibility across different regions and addressing diverse student and family needs. Remove grading for non-end-of-year assessment work. A Strategic Roadmap for Integrating Gen AI Into Schools 1.

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Can AI Aid the Early Education Workforce?

Edsurge

Since ChatGPT was released in November 2022 and exploded into public discourse, the emergence of generative AI tools has been met with both excitement and concern, across virtually every industry, ideology and age group. Panelists raised concerns as well: What are the ethical guidelines? What source data is being used?

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The Sky is Falling, or is it?

My Island View

The other obvious lesson is that if students are accessing technology to assess and learn and create content, then at the very least, educators need an awareness of that technology their students are using. People are using it professionally to do many things in industry and business settings. This is an industry-wide need.

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Here’s why anecdotes are as important as data in edtech decisions

eSchool News

Yet, when it comes to edtech, the consensus industry-wide is that recommendations from your peers mean nothing when compared to data points. With little to no oversight from government or industry regulators to hold them accountable, companies can ride into town with a new product and lofty claims.

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Online Magazine Mastery: Create with the Best Tools

Kitaboo on EdTech

Today, digital magazines are extensively used to acquire new followers and retain old ones by showcasing your consistent evolution in the content creation industry. Brainstorm a theme idea intimately linked to your industry and one that your client base will appreciate. Step 9: Congratulations!

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