Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

Join the conversation about new directions for public education in the digital age with the hashtag #EdTechContract on Twitter. Moreover, the use of learning analytics and algorithms that substitute for human judgment about students should be subject to independent review and validation.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 14, 2023

Elon Musk, the owner of Tesla, Twitter, SpaceX, and an investor in Open AI and Chat GPT, is now building a new competitor to Chat GPT. 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.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Although Interactive whiteboards, mobile learning, open content and learning management systems are proliferating within classrooms, when it comes to assessment processes, there is a fragmentation between how student data gets transferred seamlessly. Tip Tap Tap Learning Analytics. Gamification for Learning.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

JANUARY 6, 2023

This is a reprint from a series of posts I'm currently doing on data science in teaching, over at Medium. When it comes to learning data science, that’s easy for me, because I had no actual expertise to begin with when I started learning the subject in earnest this past summer. Although I have a Ph.D.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Dave’s keynotes in the last couple of years have centred around how coming to know is a messy, imprecise process at once intensely individual and necessarily embedded in a community - Rhizomatic Learning. The research entails the use of qualitative measures and data mining. I have been associated with SUNY since 1989.

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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. But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. They’re amazing.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The focus now is technology for personalized learning, including data analytics. Pushing hard on the digital front, Georgia State University and the Education Advisory Board piloted a promising use of data analytics (2210ff). Twitter’s also a fine place to chat (I’m @BryanAlexander ).

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

Stephen Downes works in the Learning and Performance Support Systems program at the National Research Council, a multi-year effort to develop personal learning technology and learning analytics. This collaboration allows candidates to view theory in practice and makes learning on campus more authentic.

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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

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 13, 2016

It was one of two social media messages – the other a Twitter photo of Tunsil smoking marijuana through a gas mark – that were posted during the NFL draft. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. ” [Insert Course Signals learning analytics joke here.]. .” From the HR Department.

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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

JUNE 24, 2016

“ Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : ”Why Twitter Is Calling Abigail Fisher ’ Becky With the Bad Grades ’: A Brief Explainer.” Educator’s Assessment Data Management System ( EADMS ) is merging with IO Education. The adaptive learning company has raised $4.57 million total. million total.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Twitter announced big layoffs this week – 9% of its staff – and said it would shutter its video app Vine. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. Via The New York Times : “ Broadband Providers Will Need Permission to Collect Private Data.” Upgrades and Downgrades. ” So says the FCC.

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