eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2024

This article explores the significance of digital tools in social studies instruction, delving into their benefits, implications, and the emerging capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) in both elementary and secondary settings.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Sure enough, elementary and secondary teachers are among the most educated yet least paid professionals; and their likelihood of automation: practically zero. The chart compares a wide array of professions based on required education levels, average annual wages, and likelihood of automation.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Tools like Turnitin that check for plagiarism, intelligent tutoring softwares like Khan Academy or iReady that automate or personalize instruction, and chatbots like Alexa that answer student questions are all vulnerable to algorithmic biases in development and inequitable outcomes in implementation.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The system is a little weird, since you can''t see all of the proposals in one area (they are categorized into primary, secondary, and tertiary blocks based on arbitrary ordering of session submissions by one individual), but here are direct links to panel proposals I made: "School 2.0: Ars Technica has a good write-up of the research.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Two examples are McGraw Hill’s ALEKS and Khan Academy. Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, defines personalization by pace. With Khan Academy, you can show “mastery” by getting a certain number of questions right in a row. Proficiency vs. mastery (Drew Lytle for NPR ).

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The district chose itslearning because it enables the meta-tagging of learning objectives within the district’s libraries and the creation of assessment data that tells teachers whether a student has gained proficiency (or not). We shouldn’t be asking them to talk like PhD-level data scientists.”. Teachers already do so much.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

But even without knowing the funding data for the month of December, I can say a lot. You can find stock market data about publicly-traded education companies at funding.hackeducation.com. Even without funding data to underscore its importance, “personalization” can’t be dismissed. Why, schools of course.

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