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Adapting to the New Classroom

techlearning

The data provided allows teachers to group students intentionally for maximized learning opportunities. District learning leaders use findings and data analysis to work with teachers to ensure common achievements throughout the program. Google Classroom ? Google Classroom ? Google voice typing ? i-Ready ?

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

But skeptics warn that underneath the language of “student-centered” pedagogy is a tech-intensive model that undermines communal values, accelerates privatization and turns public schools into big data siphons. Four years ago, only one school out of 39 in Providence used personalized learning; the model has since spread to 25 schools.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Fines Google $5.1 ” The Google blog post announcing “ Course Kit ,” a tool that will integrate Google Drive with the LMS. “Unizin Adds Student Writing Data to its Data Platform for a Clearer Portrait of Learner Success,” says the Campus Technology headline. ” asks Peter Greene.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” “‘Eton for all’: will robot teachers mean everyone gets an elite education? Google had a big media to-do this week. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. “ Mattel and Google : a double standard for AI toys?”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via The New York Times , a profile on the Indiana charter chain Excel Schools : “A Chance for Dropouts, Young and Old, to Go Back to School.” ” Via Edsurge : “Data is Good – But Not Enough – to Improve Education, Says Baltimore City Public Schools CEO.” ” This is my shocked face.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via CNBC : “ Google , Apple and 13 other companies that no longer require employees to have a college degree.” despite having Arizona ’s third-highest dropout rate.” I hope none of these programs are teaching “data science,” because this is just a silly claim based on bad data.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Meanwhile in that other big football state, Nebraska , the World Herald reports that “Sherwood Foundation buys data-tracking helmets for every OPS high school football player.” “ Should big data be used to discourage poor students from university? “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories?