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

Edsurge

There are many reasons that this doesn’t work for many students, yet our system demands that we choose efficiency and convenience over what works for cognitively diverse student learners. The yearly turnover of grades and classes makes it difficult for students who struggle to adapt to routines or who need their own systems to succeed.

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

Digital Promise

When product developers at UPchieve, a nonprofit that connects students with free math tutoring powered by human volunteers, began evaluating AI tools to power a system for forecasting student performance, they expected to find serious problems with bias. UPchieve then used its benchmarks to improve its prompts for the GenAI system.

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

Digital Promise

But across our projects, we saw a far greater need to focus professional learning on how GenAI systems work and to encourage teachers to explore this subject with students in the classroom. 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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3 Things Educators and Edtech Suppliers Need to Talk About

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Before acquiring a new edtech system, tool or app, technology leaders need to consider privacy and security concerns. Of course, following interoperability standards can help ensure the entire system works together and makes it faster, cheaper and easier to make future changes or additions to the ecosystem.

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An Expanded Definition of Student Success

Digital Promise

Erin Mote and Eric Tucker lead Brooklyn Lab Schools , a group of charter schools in downtown Brooklyn, and are focused on building systems that support an expanded definition of student success. The post An Expanded Definition of Student Success appeared first on Digital Promise.

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K-12 and Higher Ed Institutions Lead Consortium to Advance EdTech Innovation and Trust

Edsurge

Does your school district or higher ed institution use a learning management system (LMS), digital curriculum resources, learning tools, assessment applications, a badging platform, a single-sign-on application launcher or a student information system? Now, this integration can take just a few minutes.

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