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Swarming the Classroom

EdTech4Beginners

One such way educators are trying to introduce “thinking” back into the classroom is by “flipping the classroom”. A flipped classroom is a teaching pedagogy which reverses old classroom teaching and homework through a form of blended learning using modern technology and practical application. [2]

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AI Is Everywhere. Now It Wants to Teach You Chinese.

Edsurge

Strictly speaking, AI refers to a branch of computer science that focuses on machine intelligence (as opposed to natural or human intelligence). But as the term is popularly applied today, it refers to computer programming that allows machines to learn from experience, adjust to new data inputs and perform human-like tasks.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

However, at each level—middle school, high school, and college—these variations paled in comparison to a stunning and dismaying consistency. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations. That was certainly the case in our experience.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” Via Technode : “ Tsinghua University is using the cloud to make it rain in the classroom.” ” “Make it rain” here is a reference to an analytics app. I guess it could also be a reference to the money to be made off of collecting, analyzing, and selling student data. ” (Psst.