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Study: Students work harder when they think they are being watched

The Hechinger Report

A photo from a 2018 report shows a teacher using Lumilo smart glasses, developed at Carnegie Mellon University, in an experiment. To that end, software programmers have designed all sorts of data dashboards for classroom teachers. At first, the results seem to confirm the usefulness of student data. “You

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. Subscribe to their blog. It’s now an LMS too.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

In the meantime new, more agile, organisations are busy creating extremely good online learning experiences. In 2013 I learnt a lot by completing learning activities this way. I expect it will continue to grow very quickly in 2014 and to spread from its current focus in IT and software development education to other areas.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

In the meantime new, more agile, organisations are busy creating extremely good online learning experiences. In 2013 I learnt a lot by completing learning activities this way. I expect it will continue to grow very quickly in 2014 and to spread from its current focus in IT and software development education to other areas.

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School of Me: Letting students study what they want, when they want is the latest education trend

The Hechinger Report

Last year, the founder of Facebook pledged to donate $45 billion to social causes, one of them personalized learning. Conferences for teachers from coast to coast brim with representatives from the multibillion-dollar technology industry, many of them promising to help teachers provide customized tracks for education.

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The Growing Role of Technology in Personalized Learning

MindShift

By NICHOLE DOBO, The Hechinger Report. Last year, the founder of Facebook pledged to donate $45 billion to social causes, one of them personalized learning. But for that concept to work, a child must spend a lot of time on the computer, feeding the system with data that the software uses to improve itself.

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15 hot edtech trends for 2017

eSchool News

Conferences ran streaming video events. Stephen Downes works in the Learning and Performance Support Systems program at the National Research Council, a multi-year effort to develop personal learning technology and learning analytics. The rise of video carried over into education. Video Observation for Teacher PD.

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