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PROOF POINTS: The best way to teach might depend on the subject

The Hechinger Report

Indeed, the way that the 250 secondary school teachers in this study taught didn’t differ that much between math and English. Teachers observed their colleagues and filled out surveys on how frequently teachers were doing various instructional activities. educators on how to spend their class time. “I

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Giving Data Meaning: Students Should Have A Say In What Analytics Tell You About Them

Edsurge

But what can these data traces actually tell us about the students who left them, and how do we translate them into meaningful action? When we hear about scaling innovation in higher education, the emphasis is almost always on quantity and increasing the production of post-secondary credentials.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

After all, Amazon knows how to run online marketplaces; Amazon knows how to sell texts. Michael Feldstein argued that the “meaninglessness” of Purdue’s claims were important for the ed-tech community to grapple with, in no small part because many other learning analytics systems had been modeled on the Course Signals work.

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