The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2018

classrooms but a study finds that students aren’t using much of the pricey software that schools buy (Photo by Jackie Mader). The company hired Ryan Baker, director of the Penn Center for Learning Analytics , and another data scientist to mine the data and create a national snapshot of technology use for the 2017-18 school year.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

And often that’s because there is a disconnect between what students expect from college teaching and what actually ends up happening in the classroom. So what’s really frustrating is that students definitely take those seriously but it might not always be taken as seriously by the university.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

WHAT DO PROFESSORS WANT FROM LEARNING ANALYTICS? It is important to ask, argues Deborah West, director of the Office of Learning and Teaching for Charles Darwin University, in Australia, because professors are often left out of planning for so-called “learning analytics.” Don’t forget about Europe and Canada!

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

Combine this with guidance from teachers in the classroom, students will be able to comprehend various complex topics and concepts in a much better way. Related: How to Improve Student Learning Outcomes with Digital Learning. Related: 5 Ways to Use Learning Analytics in K-12 Education.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful. If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” “How Should Colleges Approach Student Success When Different Definitions Abound?” ” NPR asks whose bones made up those old classroom skeletons. ” Via Scholastic : “ James Patterson will personally donate $2 million to teachers to build classroom libraries this year.”

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Graphite Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Data collected in an educational setting -- by definition -- is data collected on people in the midst of enormous development, questioning, and growth. If people are doing adolescence right, they are making mistakes, asking questions, and breaking things, all in the name of growth and learning.

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

“Personalized learning” can mean that students “move at their own pace” through lessons and assignments, for example, unlike those classrooms where everyone is expected to move through material together. (In In an invented history of education, this has been the instructional arrangement for all of history.)

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Education technologies facilitate communication, expanding learning networks beyond the classroom. ” And again, let’s recall Franklin’s definition of technologies includes not just hardware or software, but ideas, practices, models, and systems. Perhaps they do. Trump’s tweets this morning about Berkeley.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. They’re distracted.

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