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To Bring Analytics to College Classrooms, New Effort Starts With ‘Data Laundry’

Edsurge

But they hope to create a process that others can use, and to push edtech companies to more closely follow standards so that there’s less cleaning work needed. Handing Over Datasets The first hurdle has been convincing tech companies to share the data at all.

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

Doug Levin

Accompanying the commitment to provide universal access to learning technologies for learners must be a parallel effort to ensure that all students have the age-appropriate skills to use those tools to meet their educational goals, including knowledge of basic computer operations, computer programming, and media and information literacy concepts.

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Reinventing The School Desk: Tip Tap Tap And The Internet of Things

Fractus Learning

Current assessment methods are manual, where teachers can spend a significant amount of their time transcribing results from workbooks to learning management systems. For example, in primary level teachers will prescribe printed textbooks and worksheet assessments. Tip Tap Tap Learning Analytics.

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What College Students Wish Faculty and Admins Knew About Teaching

Edsurge

In July, three members from EdSurge Independent, a student-run group that meets weekly to discuss ideas around higher education and technology, joined EdSurge Live to share what they wish faculty knew about students today, and propose ways to fuse instructional gaps. So, what are some examples of college teaching that have really stood out?

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

Edsurge

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. loves the learning analytics available from Think Through Math program. “We

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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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