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The Best Edtech for Students Is Backed by Research. Here’s What to Look For.

Edsurge

As researchers focusing on education technology, we see this often: interactive whiteboards covered in posters, desktop computers holding up plants, older devices that do not work with a newer assessment system. Making Time for Research The promise of media and technology to transform student learning has led schools in the U.S.

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AI in Schools: The Bias Dilemma

eSpark

It’s not really a debate at this point, just a fact those who build and use AI-powered technology have to live with and account for. OpenAI, the organization behind ChatGPT and the Dall-E image generator, has been particularly scrutinized since the public release of ChatGPT in November 2022. AI is biased.

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More than a Checkmark

MIND Research Institute

Patterns & Repeatability P atterns & R e peatability are fundamental to establishing the reliability of any study finding. As noted above regarding patterns, but worth repeating: it is also crucial to explore implementation-related metrics and their interaction with student subgroups, such as completion rates and regularity of use.

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How Publicly Available Broadband Data Can Help Us Close the Connectivity Gap

Education Superhighway

A recent update to our free school broadband price comparison tool , makes it easy for service providers to see the landscape of the connectivity gap so they may identify areas where they can help close it. And in recent months, data has been essential to our defense of the E-rate program. ENSURING NATIONWIDE DATA ACCURACY.

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Groundbreaking Educational Video Conferencing Platform InSpace Raises $6M in Seed Funding

eSchool News

Burlington, VT (June 8, 2021) – InSpace , a collaborative video conferencing platform that replicates personal interaction between students and teachers in virtual classrooms, today announcedthat the company has closed on $6 million in two rounds of seed funding. The company is headquartered in Burlington, Vermont, with engineers in the U.S.

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How EducationSuperHighway’s fiber program helps school districts identify affordable fiber solutions

Education Superhighway

Fiber is the only network infrastructure technology that can scale cost-effectively to meet growing bandwidth needs. Check out our Fiber Toolkit for free tools and resources including the “Build Vs. Buy” comparison tool and RFP templates aligned with the new E-rate modernization rules.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

In recent years, Simon’s ideas have found new traction, thanks to new computing technologies that would have seemed alien in the ’60s. Mathematics lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology. If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.”

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