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

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He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education. Rise of the robots Siemens has both an academic and an industry perspective on digital learning.

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Five Things You Don’t Know About Cloud Computing and Education

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They are developing a recommendation engine to leverage dropout rate data to predict and design interventions for at-risk students. After intervening and supporting approximately 16,000 students, dropout rates have decreased and test scores have improved.

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What happens when two separate and unequal school districts merge?

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Starkville, in contrast, was regarded as a successful school system, offering opportunities such as Advanced Placement classes and robotics competitions through a career and technology center. With the annual data, the Department of Justice can track disparities in black and white students’ enrollment in honors or special education classes.

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Online Classes Get a Missing Piece: Teamwork

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The lack of social interaction could be one reason behind high dropout rates in online classes. Rosé and her colleagues found that when students talk to each other, they tend to stick around and show up for their next class more than peers who chose not to complete the activity or those who only talk to the robot.

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Adapting to the New Classroom

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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. Absent students can join classrooms through robotic telepresence. Microsoft Office 365 ?

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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. She added, “Facebook plays no role in the Summit Learning Program and has no access to any student data.”).

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Hack Education Weekly News

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. “Unizin Adds Student Writing Data to its Data Platform for a Clearer Portrait of Learner Success,” says the Campus Technology headline. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “ Robots in the classroom ? ” asks Peter Greene.