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My Students Can’t Meet Academic Standards Because the School Model No Longer Fits Them

Edsurge

Single subjects and rote tasks are easy to plan and assess, but quickly lose their appeal if you don’t connect with the narrow content or see being successful in school as the primary reason for learning. We’ve also doubled down on siloed and basic skills instead of creating opportunities to see learning as connected and authentic.

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Teacher tricks: Grading & assessment

Neo LMS

Today we’ll look at grading and assessment, and how technology can assist teachers to streamline the process, as well as extract more valuable information on how students are tracking on their learning pathways. Teacher tricks: grading & assessment. Grading: a necessary evil? Grade for completion.

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Three Tips for Centering Teachers—Not Tools—in Generative AI Innovation

Digital Promise

For example, Teaching Lab’s pilot project to co-create AI-based tools with teachers highlighted the need to align tools to the academic standards and curricula that teachers used. Further, we need to develop evaluation measures and benchmarks to assess the quality of AI tools. Co-creation is time- and resource-intensive.

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How Three Organizations Are Using GenAI to Advance Equity—and Combating Bias within It

Digital Promise

For example, Asian students tended to perform worse on the assessment when given the same competence level. One prototype used GenAI to identify resources based on a lesson plan, problem set, academic standard, and other materials that a teacher submitted.

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Ensuring Equity for English Learners (ELs)

Catlin Tucker

Therefore, it is essential to assess their language abilities and design instruction that meets their needs. This ensures they are exposed to grade-level academic content while developing their English language skills. ELs need instruction tailored to their language proficiency level.

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A taxonomy for using AI in education

eSchool News

Educators and institutions are grappling with how best to integrate these tools into the learning environment while balancing innovation with ethical considerations, assessment concerns, and instructor comfort. Schools or instructors adopting this stance may wish to emphasize traditional methods of learning and assessment.

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Can “playful assessments” tell us whether maker education works?

The Hechinger Report

With scarcely a month left in the school year, why was it worth spending time making videos rather than covering the next academic standard? Plus, evidence-based assessments could improve the overall quality of project-based learning by helping educators tailor projects to specific skills and vet a lesson’s overall effectiveness.