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Your most recent episode was about learninganalytics , and listening to it reminded me that the focus of edtech folks these days is less about the tools being used and more about finding ways to improve student retention and learning. That means seeing analytics as a [supplement] to the human connection.
Martin also serves in working groups to advise the US Department of Education on the accessibility of education materials, and Universal Design for Learning. I also expect to see a lot more robotics and makerspaces in schools. Will Learninganalytics have a major impact upon Education this year?
On the Kelvinside campus in Glasgow’s leafy West End, students from middle and high school explored swarm robotics, created biofashion and programmed augmented reality games. They were mentored by a team of NuVu coaches to explore their creative instincts, while expanding their capacity to think and learnanalytically.
According to the surveyed candidates who are now not working in STEM fields, they did not pursue a STEM career due to a lack of access to resources and opportunities. Related: 5 Ways to Use LearningAnalytics in K-12 Education. Engineering students can see and learn the functioning of a machine or robotics.
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. …This is key to its advantage over traditional business models when it comes to data, since a platform positions itself (1) between users, and (2) as the ground upon which their activities occur, which thus gives it privileged access to record them. Would there even be “learninganalytics” without the LMS, I wonder?).
For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Techcrunch : “This tortoise shows kids that robot abuse is bad.” ” “ Robot abuse ”?!
Via Chalkbeat : “ Betsy DeVos ’s first Detroit visit featured Girl Scouts, robots, and talk of beluga whales.” Via Techcrunch : “Thousands of academics spurn Nature ’s new paid-access Machine Learning journal.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “Soon.”
“Can robotics teach problem solving to students?” “Learning technology once reserved for special needs students is now in everyone’s hands. ” “Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” asks eSchool News.
And the word “intelligence” is now used – oh so casually – to describe so-called “thinking machines”: algorithms, robots, AI. You can’t opt of having your cafeteria purchases, Internet usage, dorm room access, fitness center habits tracked. Trump’s tweets this morning about Berkeley.
” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A Virginia circuit court on Thursday ruled against a George Mason University student group seeking access to donor agreements between a university foundation and the Charles Koch Foundation.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.
The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Um, they do.) Despite a few anecdotes, they’re really not.).
“Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot ,” says The Wall Street Journal in a story about “Jill Watson” (of course it’s a female name), an automated teaching assistant at Georgia Tech. “ Online tutoring by students raises access fears,” says the Times Higher Education.
” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “When the Teaching Assistant Is a Robot.” Blackboard has acquired Fronteer , a software company that helps make course materials accessible. Via the MIT Technology Review : “ AT&T Is Selling Law Enforcement Access to Its Customers’ Data.”
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