eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Organizations like the Clayton Christensen Institute, RAND Corporation, and the Brookings Institution often publish reports and research on educational trends, providing data-driven perspectives. Government and Policy Updates: Stay informed about government policies and updates related to education.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Online and blended learning have become powerful solutions to improve students’ access to a high-quality education, regardless of their life circumstances, socioeconomic status or zip code,” said Thom Jackson, President and CEO of EdisonLearning. Learn more at www.edisonlearning.com.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

That’s an example of a request that can be found on online tutoring services like Chegg, as shared by a senior data scientist at the company, Sanghamitra Deb. So, to solve that, the company relies on Stanford-built Snorkel , a system for creating, modeling and managing training data. Must have 7 resources.”

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Collecting Data: Bias, Surveillance & Control. This data is being collected based on some tech person’s decision of which data is relevant in order to categorize learners in certain ways, which are often indicators that don’t necessarily help you towards a particular conclusion, but maybe make policymakers feel good.

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Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

Note: The original version of this piece was published on July 7, 2016 by New America as part of an EdCentral series on the next social contract for education: https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/edcentral/next-social-contract-public-education-needs-new-terms-service/.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 14, 2023

AI in Schools and Classrooms Edweek shared in a 2020 article , In education, AI can be found in learning analytic platforms, online courseware, voice assistants, and support structures within other apps. These companies have HUGE data mines, which will only make AI more powerful. © Shake Up Learning 2023.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The end of the report is stuffed with tantalizing promise about how future learners will engage with robots, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and wearable tech (think data-collecting headbands, and skill-tracking sensors) that could explode into classrooms in as little as four to five years. Sometimes the panelists get it right.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2016

Major organizational change—pivoting an institution and its policies and practices—is difficult. Project managers need to have sufficient control over the activities, and sufficient data on a daily streaming basis, to know what is working and what needs rethinking and tweaking. When Change Is the New Normal.

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Veative

JANUARY 3, 2019

By building on students’ natural aptitude for learning and appealing to their insatiable curiosity, Veative , a global provider of affordable, immersive learning solutions, delivers the necessary last mile push that makes all the difference between an ordinary education and an extraordinary one. Data and intelligent analytics.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 27, 2015

Technologically-based tools provide opportunities for students to learn both in and out of the classroom. The use of technological innovations such as cloud computing, mobile learning, bring?your?own?device Research-based technology investments : Prioritizing data-driven evaluations of past and future technology investments by.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

Institutions have access to more student data than ever before—but it's hard to really grasp what that means, since many of the digital tools that colleges use are from third parties or companies that keep their algorithms private. So you decided you would start looking into some of the data that the system had collected on you?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. ” Those “countless needs and niches” can be met thanks to all the data generation and data collection that happens on them. Platforms are “an extractive apparatus for data.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 14, 2016

We can’t talk about corporate interests and ed-tech without talking about politics and policies. Why has this become the cornerstone of education policy? Learning analytics is often framed as a “hot new trend” in education. Why do we test? Why do we measure? Why has this become big business?

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

Of course, test scores are just one piece of data colleges turn to when predicting which students are likely to excel in rigorous courses, enrich campus life with a unique perspective, graduate in four years, or even help balance the books with a large tuition check. The pitch: Use deeper technology to make admissions more deeply human. “I

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

He also talked about how he thinks policy shifts like the implementation of the common-core standards and the adoption of “open” educational resources are likely to affect the K-12 market, and his company’s work. Pearson was recently faulted by New Jersey state officials for a disruption of that state’s assessments.].

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2020

Colleges insist that scholars be incredibly careful with data and research subjects in the research part of their jobs, but not with the tools they use for teaching. That’s basic research ethics—inform the students about the way their data is being used,” she notes.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Data Insecurity. The Compulsion for Data. Data and Privacy. Data vs Privacy. Education Data and Learning Analytics. Data (Which Still Means Mostly “Standardized Testing”). The “New Economy” Credentialing. Personalization. Inequality. The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2015.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

This year, the Horizon Report’s Higher Education Edition does include graphics with some historical data, demonstrating how some technologies and topics appear and reappear and how some simply disappear altogether from the horizon. Click for full-size. Were they adopted? Were they rejected?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2017

Now, also, as a large research institution, we've been collecting data about our students, really for decades and we have massive amounts of digital data. They are trained not to take things as a given and to look for and demand data, to demand good logical arguments. That means our minds all work differently.

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

Or “personalized learning” is the latest and greatest – some new endeavor that will be achieved, not through human attention or agency or through paperwork or policy but through computing technologies. “Personalized learning,” depending on how you define it, dates back to Rousseau.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 16, 2015

It was also, perhaps unbeknownst to Lofton, part of the community college’s strategy to marry data science with interventions to improve student performance. So why aren’t more of the best minds in higher education doing more to tap those data streams to improve teaching and learning?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

5G promises reliability, lightning-fast speeds, and much higher data capacities. Think of broadband speeds where large amounts of data can allow students to collaborate digitally from their schools or homes. Maria Armstrong, Executive Director, Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

It’s no surprise the Internet views us as objects, as products, our personal data as a commodity. And I confess, it’s that phrase “collect enough data about students” that has me gravely concerned about “ed-tech in a time of Trump.” “Technology is a system. .” Intelligence. Control.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

Here’s what caught my eye the week of March 6, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. This reversal in policy is a bad decision for all of us." This from the school district that is still reeling from a major student data privacy breach.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

Indeed, Edutechnica, which also tracks LMS data, responds with their own numbers and says that Blackboard still has about two hundred more installations than Canvas and about a million more students using the software. Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. ” “How do children of color learn to draw themselves? .”

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

. “High school students will be allowed to carry mace in the 2016–2017 school year after the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education agreed to remove prohibitive language and amend its policy,” the Salisbury Post reports. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. .”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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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Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

This is part five of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” As in previous years, it would be quite easy to fill a whole article in this series on “ data insecurity ,” on the data breaches and cyberattacks that continue to plague education – both schools and software. million students.

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

Officials from 11 states are suing the Obama Administration over the guidance it recently issued regarding transgender bathroom policies and civil rights law. ’ ” Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. WaPo on “ data walls ”: “ This ed-reform trend is supposed to motivate students. Education Politics.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Department of Education has released data showing there were 539 institutions placed on heightened cash monitoring as of Dec. More about the politics of education data – particularly regarding undocumented students – in the data and surveillance section below. More via Bloomberg.

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The federal government is set to release data reports designed to help measure the performance of accrediting agencies , with metrics such as the graduation rates, debt, earnings and loan repayment rates of students who attended the colleges the accreditors oversee.” Data, Privacy, and Surveillance.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

.” I tweeted that the DACA database is one of the most important issues in ed-tech right now, and if you’re an ed-tech entrepreneur who says “nobody in ed-tech tracks immigration data,” you need to GTFO. ” “Policy-based Privacy is Over,” says Eric Hellman. ” Education in the Courts.

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