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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

The second is to improve strategies for how students take in that information and retain it. If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.” Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought. That’s referred to as the cognitive aspect.

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AI in the Classroom: A Complete AI Classroom Guide

The CoolCatTeacher

It doesn't have information that is false or there's unconscious or implicit biases either from our own input, from what we're asking, or from the datasets that the AI is trained on. But I think expect that as a teacher, if all you're asking students to do is work that an AI robot can do.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 & 29 Editions)

Doug Levin

graduation rates — up to a record 83 percent — and whether it is real or an elaborate scam. Tagged on: July 23, 2017 ED warns schools of another widespread ransomware attack | Future of Ed Tech e-Newsletter → In light of a recent widespread ransomware attack, the U.S. So why do I still want schools to use them? Unified gets a $3.26-million

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35 edtech innovations we saw at FETC 2023

eSchool News

Here’s just a glimpse of what we learned about during FETC 2023: AVer Information Inc. The company has built several tools to do that, including a customizable reading challenge platform and a mobile app, reading challenge templates, and diverse book recommendations.

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Is the hardest job in education convincing parents to send their kids to a San Francisco public school?

The Hechinger Report

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, public school enrollment in the United States had been trending downward , thanks to birth-rate declines and more restrictive immigration policies, but the decreases rarely exceeded half a percentage point. Not this specific conversation, of course, but ones like it. Huh uh,” Kunz said, “none of those.”

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

Do you know that feeling when you are told your questions about student privacy are unfounded by a representative of a company that earns 86% of its total revenue from advertising? The thread on this tweet has the details. “I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link].

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 34 Edition)

Doug Levin

Showing the Algorithms Behind New York City Services | New York Times → Algorithms can decide where kids go to school, how often garbage is picked up, which police precincts get the most officers, where building code inspections should be targeted, and even what metrics are used to rate a teacher. " Maybe, maybe not.

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