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Making Sense of the Metaverse in Education

EdTechTeacher

For example, high school teacher and EdTechTeacher instructor Douglas Kiang designed an Underwater Dome Project for his computer science students to build community and encourage teamwork in his face-to-face classroom. Kiang found it led to a “truly profound collaboration” amongst his students.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

He also knew that the notion of introducing what he called “learning engineers” would face resistance from faculty convinced they already knew perfectly well what they were doing in their classrooms. “A He believes the student performance results will convince even skeptical educational institutions to adopt the model.

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What’s At Risk When Schools Focus Too Much on Student Data?

MindShift

Department of Education has increasingly encouraged and funded states to collect and analyze information about students: grades, state test scores, attendance, behavior, lateness, graduation rates and school climate measures like surveys of student engagement. Software also collects information on students all by itself.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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. Students don’t pay attention to lectures, they would argue. WTF is Unizin ?!

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