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Do Personalized Learning Programs Offer Authentic Choices?

MindShift

There are a lot of folks on the vendor floor at national conferences who will sell you products that supposedly personalize learning, and much of the buzz around something like Khan Academy is that it personalizes the learning for kids. That’s the model of personalization we want to see schools move toward.

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Why Giving Kids a Roadmap to Their Brain Can Make Learning Easier

Edsurge

Soon after joining our after-school program and being exposed to the likes of Code.org and programming lessons on Khan Academy, he started showing up at 7 a.m. Yale Young Global Scholars program in Connecticut and a robotics camp in Ghana. We want them to think hard about what the end goal of learning really is.

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In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

Digital Promise

In one survey, a large majority (80 percent) of math teachers reported that free instructional content from Khan Academy helped them challenge their most advanced students, and a smaller but still significant majority (66 percent) reported that it gave them extra capacity to help their most struggling students make the gains they needed.

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The Ed-Tech Imaginary

Hack Education

The comic is based on an essay by Simon Ramo titled "The New Technique in Education" in which he describes at some length a world in which students' education is largely automated and teachers are replaced with "learning engineers" — a phrase that has become popular again in certain ed-tech reform circles.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Edsurge : “ ​Rhode Island ’s Plans to Become a ‘Lab State’ for Personalized Learning.” ” Via the Khan Academy blog : “Teachers using Google Classroom can now quickly and easily import their class roster to Khan Academy.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” A ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union raises interesting questions about the ownership of student data : “Exam scripts and examiner’s corrections are personal data of the exam candidate.” Spoiler alert: it’s about learning how to teach differently.). Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Crisis-level student loan default rates among black borrowers and those who attended for-profits cannot be explained fully by students’ backgrounds, study finds, including measures of income, employment and parental wealth.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.