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School of Me: Letting students study what they want, when they want is the latest education trend

The Hechinger Report

Baker, associate professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of the new Penn Center for Learning Analytics. Many programs and products produce reams of “research,” but they’re just sales materials masquerading as effectiveness studies. based education reform advocacy group.

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The Histories of Personalized Learning

Hack Education

Or “personalized learning” can mean that students have a say in what they learn – students determine topics they study and activities they undertake. That is, through monitoring and feedback, through automated assessment, and through the programmatic presentation of new or next materials to study.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via the Education Law Center : “Several New Jersey civil rights and parent advocacy organizations have filed a legal challenge to new high school graduation regulations recently adopted by the State Board of Education. Via New America : “The Promise and Peril of Predictive Analytics in Higher Education.”

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The Growing Role of Technology in Personalized Learning

MindShift

Many programs and products produce reams of “research,” but they’re just sales materials masquerading as effectiveness studies. Baker, associate professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of the new Penn Center for Learning Analytics. based education reform advocacy group.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. As we move forward with new technologies in learning analytics, how and who will be evaluating the claims that people put forward?”. The Intel Education Study App has now too been discontinued.

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