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Massive Study of Online Teaching Ends With Surprising — and ‘Deflating’ — Result

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MIT professor Justin Reich and several colleagues just completed one of the largest-ever research studies exploring teaching techniques in online higher education, involving nearly 250,000 students from nearly every nation on the planet. After all, he and his collaborators did get significant results in their earlier, smaller studies.

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John King: ‘The Failure of National Leadership Is Being Visited Upon School Leaders’

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So again, the failure of national leadership is being visited upon school leaders who face this impossible dilemma. We ought to be doing more to ensure that at every school, you have the opportunity to not just get English and math but science and social studies and the arts and computer science and AP classes. But we have to be safe.

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The Failure of Fast Education

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First, let’s work to make non-accredited vocational education free to students, or shift the burden of cost to taxpayers or corporations. If these programs are fully funded through work-study or outright grants (like many graduate programs in the U.S.) This already exists for accredited programs.

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How Automated Speech Recognition Could Change Studying Forever

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As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

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We used these Google tools in our schools and saw tangible results soar

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During Education on Air on Sunday December 3rd, we will share the findings in Impact Portraits. These case studies demonstrate the success with Google for Education through the lens of teachers, students and administrators. To hear Linda Darling-Hammond lead a discussion on Impact Portraits, register now for Education On Air.

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Forward Failures, Future of Work and What’s (Not) the Next Big Thing in Edtech

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Lessons from Forward Failures “Most of today’s schools were designed for a different time and purpose. However, innovating schools and actually putting those calls to practice can get messy, and it appeared that one theme throughout the event was about facing and learning from those failures. Many transferred for sure, but many didn’t.”

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Study: Why Some Children’s Apps Might Not Be as Safe as You Think

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According to the authors of a study on the privacy protections in children’s apps, perhaps not much. And in 2017, the New York Attorney General settled with the same organization , due to its “failure to adequately prevent illegal tracking technology from surfacing on some of the nation’s most popular children’s websites.”

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