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Making Sense of the Metaverse in Education

EdTechTeacher

But, metaverse technologies are growing quickly and have enormous implications for the future of teaching and learning. That said, the metaverse’s underlying technologies are expanding rapidly and many experts believe the metaverse will become ubiquitous in the near future. Post by Tom Daccord. And that’s understandable.

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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 In recent years, Simon’s ideas have found new traction, thanks to new computing technologies that would have seemed alien in the ’60s.

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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

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)

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