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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.
In fact, the experiment at the Michigan public college could be said to mark a new generation in an area known as “ learninganalytics.” Seth Brott, a sophomore at Ferris State University majoring in information security, plans to give his robot classmates a warm welcome. How can we make that experience better for students?”
I think 2017 is going to be an exciting year, there’s going to be a lot more cloud based technology than there was before and when classes and content are delivered in the cloud and via browsers, it means kids can access the same experience and content at home as they can in the classroom. Learninganalytics and big data are huge.
The end of the report is stuffed with tantalizing promise about how future learners will engage with robots, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and wearable tech (think data-collecting headbands, and skill-tracking sensors) that could explode into classrooms in as little as four to five years.
But looking at 2024, here are some current trends in education: Technology Integration: Continued integration of technology into classrooms, with a focus on online learning, educational apps, and interactive tools. Flexible Learning Environments: Adoption of flexible learning environments that accommodate different learning styles.
Combine this with guidance from teachers in the classroom, students will be able to comprehend various complex topics and concepts in a much better way. Related: How to Improve Student Learning Outcomes with Digital Learning. Related: 5 Ways to Use LearningAnalytics in K-12 Education.
It will likely be achieved through a combination of learninganalytics (big data) and the evolution of personal technologies and ubiquitous computing. Previous posts in this series: 1: Telecommunications 2: Classrooms 3: Music 4: Enhanced vision 5: Robot teachers? Unported License.
” Whoever controls the AI technology will control and manipulate many things in our lives and classrooms. If you Google the “dark side of GPT,” this should make you pause before using this in the classroom. Robots will move so fast that you need a strobe light to see them. Right now, tech companies own AI.
Would there even be “learninganalytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). There’s an understanding – even if it’s a disgruntled one – among those in the classroom and those making procurement decisions of what the LMS is for, what it should do, and so on. There’s an existing market there.
” NPR asks whose bones made up those old classroom skeletons. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Techcrunch : “This tortoise shows kids that robot abuse is bad.” ” “ Robot abuse ”?! ” Venture Capital and the Business of Education.
Via Chalkbeat : “ Betsy DeVos ’s first Detroit visit featured Girl Scouts, robots, and talk of beluga whales.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Entrepreneur.com repeats this old story : “ Personalised learning with the help of Artificial Intelligence will change the Education System.”
Via Wired : “How Apple Lost Its Place in the Classroom.” ” Via The New York Times : “Apple Unveils New iPad to Catch Google in the Classroom.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. There’s more robot news in the job training section above. Cue the “hot takes.”
Teacher on Paid Leave After Confederate Flag Found Hanging in Classroom.” “Can robotics teach problem solving to students?” “Learning technology once reserved for special needs students is now in everyone’s hands. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via The Root : “ Calif.
Education technologies facilitate communication, expanding learning networks beyond the classroom. And the word “intelligence” is now used – oh so casually – to describe so-called “thinking machines”: algorithms, robots, AI. Perhaps they do. Trump’s tweets this morning about Berkeley.
” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” “Do Voice Assistant Devices Have a Place in the Classroom?” ” Not directly ed-tech related, except for the part where many ed-tech evangelists really really really seem to want to put listening devices in classrooms. ” asks Edsurge.
There were other high profile incidents as well: the refusal, for example, to give visas to the all-girls robotics team from Afghanistan. They are in limbo , along with many of the students in their classrooms. The actions of the administration should not come as a surprise.
The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. They’re distracted.
“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. ” [Insert Course Signals learninganalytics joke here.]. From the HR Department.
Testing, Testing… Via the Hechinger Report : “On a classroom-based test for new teachers , black teachers score lower.” ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “When the Teaching Assistant Is a Robot.” Via New America : “The Promise and Peril of Predictive Analytics in Higher Education.”
Google boasts that “New Google Classroom features make it easier to learn, teach, manage and build” – that is, by adding notifications and metrics. More on the Classroom API via the G Suite Developers Blog. Robots and Other (Ed-Tech) Science Fiction. Good god, the bar is low, isn’t it.
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