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Why Is Measuring Learning So Difficult? A Video Conversation with iPad Summit Keynoter, Justin Reich

EdTechTeacher

Check out this new video from EDUCAUSE with four experts, including EdTechTeacher co-founder and iPad Summit Boston Keynote Speaker, Justin Reich addressing the question, “Why is measuring learning difficult?”

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Here's How Single Sign-On Saved One District 2,500 Hours of Instructional Time Per Month

Edsurge

Our district uses a wide variety of technology—MAC, PC, iPads, Android tablets, Chromebooks, cell phones—which can be a challenge for IT departments and teachers. We're looking at artificial machine learning analytics around security and digging deeper into ClassLink’s reporting features. Plus, we’re a BYOD environment.

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S3: A Holistic Framework for Evaluating the Impact of Educational Innovations (Including OER)

Iterating Toward Openness

You could use it to measure the impact of “things” like learning analytics or iPads or augmented reality. You could use it to measure the impact of “approaches” like problem-based pedagogies or collaborative problem solving pedagogies or active learning pedagogies. There is nothing OER-specific about S3.

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Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources

Marketplace K-12

Pearson was one of the companies, along with Apple, that was faulted as the Los Angeles Unified school district’s 1-to-1 iPad program, faced technical breakdowns and backlash. Pearson’s common-core aligned curriculum was supposed to come pre-loaded on iPads, and the company was criticized by those who said it wasn’t ready.

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Mobile learning and personal metrics

Learning with 'e's

The first principle in the article above relates to access, and states: "A mobile learning environment is about access to content, peers, experts, portfolio artifacts, credible sources, and previous thinking on relevant topics. Such large data sets can conceivably be sold on for a sizeable profit to companies who are interested.

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Ed-Tech and the Commercialization of School

Hack Education

Ed-tech amnesia: we act as though nobody thought about using computers in the classroom until Steve Jobs introduced the iPad, or something. Learning analytics is often framed as a “hot new trend” in education. Computers, in many many ways, are simply an extension of this. But it’s actually quite an old one.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

Primary and secondary schools are a battleground between iPads and Chromebooks, it seems. Big data and data analytics : interest in this is widespread and has some hefty power behind it. Personalized learning is winning a growing amount of attention, but no off-the-shelf tech solutions.

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