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Free Conference! Design and Delivery in a Blended Learning Jungle

The CoolCatTeacher

Shaelynn Farnsworth will help us understand how edtech tools and the learning analytics they provide will help us reach our students (and differentiate.) She’ll have practical, real-world examples for us. Wednesday, August 19 – STEM Transitioning to remote and blended learning with STEM.

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Why Aren’t Schools Using the Apps They Pay For?

Edsurge

School leaders expect students and teachers to be using their licensed apps all the time, says Ryan Baker, director of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Learning Analytics. The top five apps with the most licenses purchased are ConnectEd, Achieve3000, WeVideo, Blender Learn Discovery and Education Streaming Plus.

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The Dangers of AI (and it’s not cheating) – SULS0190

Shake Up Learning

A quick Google search will reveal many other warnings and predictions he has made about AI. Right now, tech companies own AI. If you Google the “dark side of GPT,” this should make you pause before using this in the classroom. These companies have HUGE data mines, which will only make AI more powerful.

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Behaviorism, Surveillance, and (School) Work

Hack Education

I was a speaker today at the #AgainstSurveillance teach-in , a fundraiser for Ian Linkletter who is being sued by the online test-proctoring software company Proctorio. In ed-tech circles, we call this "learning analytics," but it's less about learning than it is about productivity.).

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3 lessons from data on how students are actually using educational apps and software at school

The Hechinger Report

is a for-profit company that sells data analysis to public schools. Despite these drawbacks, the company has an interesting repository of technology usage from roughly 400,000 students, kindergarten through high school, across 26 states. For example, students who visited Varsity Tutors more frequently had higher reading scores.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. The company has raised some $77.5 Education’s Proto-Platforms.

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Ed-Tech and the Commercialization of School

Hack Education

Companies and venture capitalists alike see huge opportunities for what they insist will be a growing market: last year, McKinsey called education a $1.5 One firm predicted that the “ smart education and learning market ” will grow from $105.23 billion in the 2012–13 academic year. trillion industry.

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