eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

On weekends, I’d visit a friend on his farm in the Panamanian countryside, and this scarecrow would always catch my attention. This allowed me to repeatedly test myself on the words and phrases I struggled with (rated 1’s and 2’s), while only occasionally reviewing those I felt comfortable with (4’s and 5’s). It’s espantapájaros.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

When he started poking around these systems built by Blackboard and Follett, he found that he was able to access millions of records, things from test grades to medical records, what they eat for lunch, all kinds of things. So why hasn't this gotten more attention? Some of what he was able to find actually surprised him.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2023

Nearly every list of major IT or educational technology issues for 2023 includes the need to further harden educational systems and infrastructure. Too many warnings can numb end users into assuming the IT department is crying wolf and they may stop paying attention to warnings.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

As the pandemic has forced more teaching online, plenty of instructors have been trying to figure out the best way to keep students’ attention and interest with lecture videos or Zoom sessions. One of the things we do as researchers is we test ideas,” says Stull. “We The face is a massive draw—it’s a magnet for attention,” Stull says.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Teachers can’t slow down the lesson plans for the entire class to accommodate a few struggling students, and can’t provide individualized attention to all the students who need it to stay on track. Most tools that teachers have for this purpose are lagging indicators such as tests, quizzes, and homework.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Analytical thinking Creative thinking Resilience, flexibility, and agility Motivation and self-awareness Curiosity and lifelong learning Technological literacy To prepare students for this type of workforce, educators must design impactful learning opportunities that require the use of these AI skills.

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AUGUST 22, 2017

Of this group, five teams are building education technology tools with support from mentors from Imagine K12, the local edtech accelerator that Y Combinator absorbed last February. The company has tested the tool in nine school districts and charter management organizations, and plans to launch publicly in October.

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

The district was among the first in the country to test the chatbot called Khanmigo, an AI program developed by online learning giant Khan Academy that is designed for classrooms and acts as a tutor for students and an assistant for teachers. Reid studies educational technology products and reviews their efficacy in classroom instruction.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

One morning, my students were getting ready for a math test and working through a set of review problems. Now, he was rewarding himself by attentively drawing cartoon cityscapes all over his paper. For many of them, the biggest challenges weren’t the questions on the paper in front of them, but their ability to attend to it.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Over the course of my career, I’ve had some years where my students’ standardized test scores were on the rise , and other years where they stagnated. While educators are engaged in long-winded conversations about how these tests don’t accurately reflect student success, kids are losing out every day.

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JUNE 17, 2020

Other interventions the researchers tested in the experiment also failed to deliver the results found in smaller trials. His message is that learning scientists need to pay more attention to context when they test various teaching methods.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The pandemic is changing the way tests and quizzes are conducted at colleges across the country, with the rapid adoption of new tools that proponents say catch cheating, but in ways that many students say amount to an unacceptable invasion of their privacy. In that model, colleges are typically charged on a per-test basis.

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DECEMBER 24, 2021

Holding learning technologies accountable. With increased federal support to fund technologies in the classroom, expand broadband access, and put devices in the hands of more students, education technology continues to play an important role in the lives of educators and students.

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MARCH 13, 2019

That tagline serves as something of a futuristic mission statement for the Boston-based company, which focuses on bringing brain-training video games to market and is seeking to produce the first FDA-approved game treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. While ADHD limits attention, it doesn’t diminish it entirely.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Without that intrinsic personal motivation, it’s hard to reach the levels we expect and hope,” says Parandeh Kia, associate provost for educational technology at the institute. Voxy recently earned a research-based design product certification from the education technology nonprofit Digital Promise. government.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

Worried about attention spans? In my most recent book “Attack of the Teenage Brain,” I give an example of papers from two separate research groups examining video games and attentional states. And … “(Videogames) have now become tools in research facilities because of their ability to enhance attention.” Then I pause.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

For the assessment mavens at Educational Testing Service ( ETS ), these evolving capabilities present both a challenge and an opportunity, says the organization’s Markku “Mark” Häkkinen. How do you present science, technology, engineering, and math content? How do you present mathematics? Ready to try out Amazon Polly?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2016

These events are weekend hackathons that bring together teams of educators, designers, entrepreneurs, developers and others who are eager to solve problems in education. But we rarely see novel education technology or human capital innovations built to address this challenge. Photo credit: Devlo Media.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Echoing wider soul searching over technology’s polarizing role in politics and society, the education technology scene has been doing its own reckoning. But, I do hope that 2018 will see a greater emphasis on coalition-building and renewed attention to how edtech can best contribute to this broader challenge.

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JANUARY 27, 2025

Theres a disconnect between what we know is really critical and then what were paying attention to, says Hau, executive director of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning and author of a new book about the essential role of relationships in healthy human development. At 3 years old, I was still trying. We don't need scientists to tell us that.

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JUNE 18, 2020

Much of the attention that open educational resources have earned focuses on their low cost. That approach underscores why some advocates view OER courseware as a promising tool in the field of learning engineering, which aims to test and change teaching practices and materials to improve student outcomes on a large scale.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In education, this increase in capacity is already showing up in numerous forms. At its most basic, grading of multiple choice quizzes and tests is now essentially instantaneous. One of the primary applications of AI is to massively increase an organization’s capacity to do tasks that require some form of reasoning.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

Students may think they can scroll through and read a question for a test or quiz quickly, as they do with other tools, Picou says. For her part, Picou says her conversations with educators show that a digital tool’s usefulness goes beyond the interface. It’s almost like the way I would scroll through Instagram.”

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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

To Truman, the worksheets, which were meant to fill a bit of time in the morning, had become a form of timed testing, presenting him daily with a task he couldn’t complete. Friedrich Froebel, a pedagogue of modern education, coined the term “kindergarten” in 1840 after recognizing the importance of play in the development of young children.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

With an increased emphasis on improving test scores in reading, writing, math and science, social studies fell to the wayside. Districts need to put time, attention and resources behind mapping out the scope and sequence of a student’s civic development, from the moment they enter school until they graduate.

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APRIL 30, 2019

With increased attention on technology-related subjects during the past few years, how are U.S. Pretty well, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)—also known as the Nation’s Report Card. For only the second time in its 50-year history, the test has attempted to measure U.S.

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

During a lesson, it was easy to see students’ reactions—if they were paying attention, confused, or engaged—and I could adjust on the spot as needed. In the time of TikTok, attention spans have waned. The classroom was a stage, and it felt like one, an actual stage and not my own home. Now, students are even more easily distracted.

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JUNE 1, 2022

The technology supporting these metaversities comes from Engage, an Irish company that has produced virtual-reality experiences depicting the Titanic voyage, the Apollo 11 space mission and the bombing of Berlin during World War II. The design interface comes from VictoryXR, a company that sells virtual-reality education technology.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2016

This refrain is well-grounded in empirical research—differences between teachers have been shown not only to affect student test achievement but also a variety of later life student outcomes—and it is the basis for a concerted national effort to upgrade the skill-set of the nation’s teacher workforce.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Often this is done via paper tests—despite the growing usage of predictive analytics in schools, where there are seemingly as many data dashboards as students in a classroom. With paper- and pen-based tests, it’s quite hard to read the results and takes a lot of time. Educators] ask, ‘Who are the kids we think have difficulties?’

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MAY 21, 2020

The judges assessed each finalist’s innovation, paying special attention to whether an idea was likely to stick and, therefore, make a lasting impact in the field. It’s also really important to test early with the interactions to make sure you are addressing the pain points of your user base.”

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MAY 3, 2021

Perhaps, in addition to class bonding, their laser-like focus might carry over into the lesson itself, buying him 10 or even 15 minutes of focused attention. So he put it to the test. The answers are irrelevant, but seeing them come through the chat helps Diy gauge whether students are still paying attention.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

In the book What the Best College Teachers Do , Ken Bain describes how sustaining students’ attention helps to facilitate learning. In an hour-long class, I seek a way to gain the students’ attention in the beginning. In an hour-long class, I seek a way to gain the students’ attention in the beginning. Can I make them laugh?

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JANUARY 16, 2025

Educators have talked for years about students shortening attention spans and how kids struggle to follow the most basic of instructions. Its creators, he tells me, want to grab attention and rack up views quickly so they get free stuff. Guillermo stresses to me that he is not a fan of brain rot videos.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

As educators, we are tasked with the weighty responsibility of helping prepare students to be successful in life. In lieu of traditional paper-pencil tests, I sometimes have my students perform alternative self-assessments. And as wide a swath as life may cut, students must be prepared for whatever challenge it unfolds.

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Edsurge

MAY 20, 2024

But these days, about 5 to 6 percent of all K-12 students are homeschooled, which means that model has received very little attention compared to charter schools, considering that about 7 percent of students attend those, she adds. The state started to permit the “Classical Learning Test” as a substitute for the SAT.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

Nardolilli’s experience in designing educational games goes back to when he would create science-themed birthday parties at an after-school science center. Now, he and Baselice collaborate to create and test games and are actively trying to gather evidence that these activities aren’t just good for engagement, but for long-term learning.

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