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Free Conference! Design and Delivery in a Blended Learning Jungle

The CoolCatTeacher

Kasey Bell will cover this as one of the five characteristics of the Dynamic Learning Framework. Joni Degner and Mark Schwartz will show how to use data to improve writing. Blended Learning. She’ll have practical, real-world examples for us. Learning Loss and the Impact of the COVID-19 on Student Achievement.

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

Shake Up Learning

Right now, tech companies own AI. AI in Schools and Classrooms Edweek shared in a 2020 article , In education, AI can be found in learning analytic platforms, online courseware, voice assistants, and support structures within other apps. These companies have HUGE data mines, which will only make AI more powerful.

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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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The Next Social Contract for Public Education Needs New Terms of Service

Doug Levin

There is every reason to expect that both entrepreneurs and enterprising educators will continue to generate new and compelling ideas about how to effectively address the challenges facing public education through technology, and for this we should remain optimistic and hopeful.

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

Edsurge

He’s worried that, rather than advancing our human potential, many edtech companies and universities are perpetuating the status quo. The LINK Lab is a hub international scholars exploring the digitization of knowledge and learning and how this process impacts education. He points to the learning management system as an example.

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PROOF POINTS: How to get teachers to talk less and students more

The Hechinger Report

Example of the talk meter shown to Cuemath tutors at the end of the tutoring session. Silence may be golden, but when it comes to learning with a tutor, talking is pure gold. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift One India-based tutoring company, Cuemath, trains its tutors to encourage students to talk more.

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Not Just Numbers: How Educators Are Using Data in the Classroom

Edsurge

That's understandable given that how kids performed on state and national assessments can impact funding. For example, at DSST, Firman and his staff have championed the art of “cultural data,” where they’re tracking how students and teachers are adhering to the district’s set of norms, values and beliefs.

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