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Five Things You Don’t Know About Cloud Computing and Education

Edsurge

They are developing a recommendation engine to leverage dropout rate data to predict and design interventions for at-risk students. After intervening and supporting approximately 16,000 students, dropout rates have decreased and test scores have improved. Watch the video to see how it works.

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Can kids get passionate about learning — and develop the persistence to follow where it leads? One school has a plan

The Hechinger Report

We believe in the idea of trying on different identities: ‘I’m going to be a photographer, robotics engineer, or actor in a Shakespeare play.’ ”. Fifth-graders (from left) Jayden Vargas, David Bojorque, and Ariyana Denny figure out how to make their Lego robot move in a robotics class at Elm City College Prep, in New Haven, Connecticut.

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E-learning’s Promise and Failure

Knowledge Avatars K-12

That is to say, it includes lectures, usually in the form of videos, accompanied by drill and practice activities and tests. So if a student wants to learn something very specific, they have to search through the video, stopping and starting it to try to understand a concept. Would you use such a robot tutor? What do you think?

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Adapting to the New Classroom

techlearning

HS makerspaces with 3Dprinters and video Recording THE ROAD TO CREDIT RECOVERY Coxsackie-Athens Central School District in rural upstate New York serves 1,328 K–12 students, 42–50 percent of whom are eligible for free and reduced meals. Absent students can join classrooms through robotic telepresence. Chrome extensions ?

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Online Classes Get a Missing Piece: Teamwork

Edsurge

The lack of social interaction could be one reason behind high dropout rates in online classes. Sure, there are sophisticated online lectures where learners can see one another on screen and break out into small groups to chat via video. But these are still the minority online classes. The human element makes a difference.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

The same was true at the affluent, predominantly white Barrington Middle School, which will soon move into a $68 million building fitted with a robotics lab. apps and software, with some classes much more tech-reliant than others.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

How a College Dropout Plans to Replace the SAT and ACT.” “ Video Games Are a Waste of Time? Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Edsurge : “ Robots Won’t Replace Instructors , 2 Penn State Educators Argue. ” Edsurge profiles Imbellus : “A Test Worth Teaching To?