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Teaching Python: How Children Can Learn Python Programming

The CoolCatTeacher

Episode 720 with Kelly Schuster-Paredes and Sean Tibor From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Twitter: @ teachingpython. link] (Big Data). Teaching coding can be challenging and expensive, but our guests Sean and Kelly have a solution. kellypared. link] (Calculating Pi).

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Teachers Are Turning to AI Solutions for Assistance

EdTech Magazine

These tools also gather actionable insights and information about a student’s progress and report the data back to the teacher.”. Artificial Intelligence Gives Teachers More Time and Specific Data. Intelligent assistant solutions can also help teachers analyze student data and alter lesson plans to best benefit their classes.

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Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Welcome to a treasure from my ISTE 2023 vault. She has held several leadership positions with education companies, most recently Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Achieve 3000, Kaplan K12, and Renaissance Learning. Thank you both for joining us.

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(This Is Not a Morphology of) The Monsters of Education Technology

Hack Education

Our current obsession with educational data has its roots in very similar attempts: to quantify. Every time you hear someone talk about “student data,” imagine them saying “students’ life blood” instead. But I face them all the time, particularly on Twitter. You invoke history, sure. Montessori.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

And before you sic your PR team on me, yes, I realize that Purdue Global is not a for-profit, even though it’s mostly a rebranded Kaplan. Really great investigative work on Department of Education data on school shootings by NPR’s Anya Kamenetz, Alexis Arnold, and Emily Cardinali : “The School Shootings That Weren’t.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Inside Higher Ed : “A pending Connecticut law will now mandate that the University of Connecticut and the state’s four other public universities publicly release data on which transfer student credits they accept and which they reject.” ” Via Education Dive : “The Purdue-Kaplan Earthquake.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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