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How Access to Technology Can Create Equity in Schools

Digital Promise

That means we shouldn’t just use edtech to replace worksheets, run “drill and kill” exercises, or crunch assessment performance numbers. In rural Alabama, Piedmont City School District helped provide students with internet access by installing a town wireless network in 2011 using a federal E-rate grant.

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14 Quick ways to tech-up your classroom

Neo LMS

This is a mobile app that enables teachers to quickly assess their students. Answers are then scanned by the teachers phone, and the app generates useful sets of graphics and assessments per question. The app also offers a number of mindfulness exercises for kids of all ages. Book Creator.

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Why Don’t We Trust Students?

Catlin Tucker

This power dynamic also places an enormous burden on teachers, who find themselves doing all of the planning, teaching, reviewing, reflecting, assessing, and communicating with families. This exercise is designed to help you reflect on your current practices and strategize for the new school year. It begins with us, the educators.

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PROOF POINTS: Asian American students lose more points in an AI essay grading study — but researchers don’t know why

The Hechinger Report

This was purely a research exercise and these essays and machine scores weren’t used in any of ETS’s assessments. Diff” adjusts this raw number for the randomness of human ratings. The ETS website says it only relies on the e-rater score alone for practice tests, and uses it in conjunction with human scores for actual exams.)

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My Students Wanted Hope in the Curriculum. I Found the Answer in Wholistic Science Pedagogy.

Edsurge

First, students would look at data on redlining, rates of asthma and air pollution, access to medical services, proximity to current and former Indigenous communities, and gentrification, to name a few. Students collaborated to create survey questions and conducted individual interviews with elders in their lives.

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Facing Pressure on Enrollment, Will Colleges Support More Transfer Students?

Edsurge

They may intend to earn two years’ worth of general education credits at more affordable rates before transferring to a four-year college or university. It helps us fulfill our mission as a public university,” University of Virginia president James E. They may want to boost their grades before applying to a more selective institution.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 34 Edition)

Doug Levin

New data analyses by NCES offer an updated assessment of the adoption of online learning by high schools: More than 4 in 10 U.S. Exercises where computers or tablets are deliberately used may, in fact, improve student performance. public high schools (42.5 " Maybe, maybe not. Even as the Web has grown, however, it has narrowed.

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