Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The University of Massachusetts Amherst has historically required prospective undergraduate students to submit a standardized test score as part of their applications. Even now, as testing has resumed—albeit with social distancing, face coverings and limited seating—access to testing centers is not equal, nor equitable.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

The situation is made even more challenging by the lack of suitable feedback mechanisms to help teachers understand who is struggling in class and to help them quickly find the root cause of the student’s challenges. Most tools that teachers have for this purpose are lagging indicators such as tests, quizzes, and homework.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

And perhaps most novel, instead of traditional tests, they’re using “Sparkle Sleuths,” one in an emerging set of assessment tools to measure their mastery. But with MIT reinforcing its work, Community Middle has become a test site for schools nationwide.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. The quiz seems deceptively easy: The past decade has seen literally hundreds of technologies and ideas emerge, many aimed at engaging or involving K-12 students and supporting student learning. Feedback@edsurge.com. Class Dojo-2011.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

While this may make some educators cringe, the reality is that test-enhanced learning, or testing as an aid to learning, has evidence of effectiveness dating back nearly 100 years ( Roediger III, McDaniel, & McDermott, 2006 ). The Testing Effect and LMS Technology.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2018

For years, personalities like Sir Ken Robinson have taken education systems to task for actually testing the creativity out of students. Author and educator Katie White, who’s something of an expert on the creative process, may have a practical solution. We can actually do a self-assessment feedback session.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

It guides students from simple to complex skills, adapting to individual student needs and offering explicit instruction with real-time feedback. Schools can also leverage IXL’s Learn to Read and Reading Intervention skill plans that align perfectly to popular textbooks so educators can steadily and methodically narrow reading gaps.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Tekniverse gives students instant feedback from physical sensors which can be programmed to act as weather stations, walkie talkies and more,” said Deren Güler, founder of Teknikio. Teknikio’s components are designed and tested to appeal to boys and girls, and the lesson resources are intentionally gender-neutral. About Teknkio.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

“When you think about that in an educational context, it … really opens up the opportunity to give more students the kinds of things that are better supporting their learning.” EdSurge: The app you developed helps teachers test out their learning materials to see if they’re effective. What’s new in your approach?

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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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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2021

When it comes to education technology, most educators would agree on two primary premises: Our needs are many, and we’re not short on tools to meet those needs. When it comes to education technology, most educators would agree on two primary premises: Our needs are many, and we’re not short on tools to meet those needs.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

In return, the districts will share feedback on how the tool can be improved before it is made publicly available this fall. Under the partnership, Khan Academy will be providing the offices with on-the-ground and remote trainings for teachers, principals and administers. The announcement comes without a plan, however.

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2020

Greeting students at the door each morning, chatting with them about their weekend, providing in-person feedback on projects, and facilitating student-led conversations are among the many joys we miss during this pandemic. Less Testing, More Feedback When we finally do recover, we should throw out what the pandemic showed us wasn’t important.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Adaptive technologies are tools that adapt to the student based on their interactions with the technology. These adaptations could be in the form of suggesting next steps, providing remediation, controlling pacing, or providing feedback based on analysis of the students performance. Personalized or Individualized Learning?

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2020

Double-Loop Learning Good educators are empirical in the sense that they are constantly testing to see what their students know, what they are missing, which concepts they appear to be stuck on, which lessons ignite their passion and curiosity, which activities cause them to get bored and drift, and so on.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2022

It’s clear that education technology, also known as EdTech, has seen many changes and challenges but one thing stands out — the industry is expected to continue to grow with an even stronger focus on technology, which means there will be a high demand for individuals who can support it. But that never deterred Sipper. “I

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2021

Education has been defined in terms of quantitative test scores and career readiness, forgetting that learning is part of the human condition. When we shift from test scores to storytelling, we humanize not only the process of learning, but the process of assessment.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2024

Those are vital questions for education technology innovators as they build ventures, secure funding and expand their impact. Catalyst @ Penn GSE, a global center for education innovation at the University of Pennsylvania, is passionate about supporting education entrepreneurs. If you build it, will it work?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

At BetterLesson, we practice the Try, Measure, Learn framework, which empowers teachers to identify a new strategy to try, test it out, and measure its impact against a goal set with a coach. Make time for teachers and learners so that they can exchange feedback and set goals. There are also pitfalls to avoid at this time.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2016

In the past couple decades, one-to-one laptop programs have spread widely, but so has debate about whether they are cost-effective and beneficial to educational outcomes,” said Zheng, assistant professor of educational technology and lead author on the paper.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

The student knew the material, but she just wasn’t a good test-taker. Her score on that exam was so low, in fact, that she realized she had no chance to get an A in the course, no matter how well she might do on future tests and assignments. After that, this professor vowed never to use traditional grades on tests again.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

Finally, the Commissioner of Education assessed the state and district reviewer evaluations, public feedback and cost of the materials before giving approval. With Core5, teachers are empowered to differentiate instruction for each student using meaningful data powered by Lexia’s patented Assessment Without Testing® technology.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

“Having so many examples being updated and shared made the process easier,” says Warren Apel, the director of technology at the American School in Japan, located in Tokyo. On the international educator Facebook group, teachers cited a need for setting boundaries, describing 12 or 18 hour days that can leave them exhausted.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2018

Innovation in the classroom can (and sometimes does) lead to innovation in educational technology as well, but it is the private sector—usually the startup community—which often leads the way here. Our first was PeerView, an app for facilitating faculty-to-faculty peer review and feedback.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Then, rather unexpectedly, we were awarded a big grant to test out a hot new topic: personalized learning. A year later, our test scores had shot up. Our teachers and students thrived; every single student received individual support and feedback every single day in both math and reading. Were they better than a worksheet?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Ten years ago, when we began building equitable, offline-first education technology for the 2/3 of the world who didn’t have internet access, many people told us to just wait and the gap would close naturally. Immediate feedback also helps students develop self-efficacy.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2024

He apparently took pictures of his exam questions, posted them online during the test, and users on X, formerly Twitter, gave him the answers (which he could presumably hear read to him on his smart glasses). He was detected and his test scores were invalidated. There could be upsides in college classrooms, he predicts.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2023

ChatGPT adds to the suite of AI tools that might be encountered in an ELA classroom, along with automated essay scoring, writing evaluation and feedback. As with all emerging technologies, it is critical to understand how we relate to these technologies in order to best leverage them for student learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Results showed that using researched principles of learning science—specifically feedback-driven metacognition and another process known as retrieval—increased individual scores one to two grades higher, often turning Cs into As. Learning How to Learn I’ve often heard students tell me they studied for hours on a test only to fail.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

Designed specifically for early learners, the skill combines the strengths of voice technology with research-based best practices on early childhood literacy and tangible play. Participating in the Challenge allowed them to get feedback that will help further develop their product. We discovered that kids have very low expectations.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2024

One reason for that, he argues, is that it’s easier to measure how much students are learning in math and science by using standardized tests that can be quickly graded by machines. But Cote saw that now an AI chatbot can be trained on the same rubric to instantly give the same kind of feedback.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2024

And for months he has been leading a series of workshops through which more than 70 educators have tried versions of the tool and given feedback. Feldstein is not completely convinced it will work, though, so he says he has invited plenty of people to test it who are skeptical of the idea. The question is, can AI do that?”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

Many teachers and professors are spending time this summer experimenting with AI tools to help them prepare slide presentations, craft tests and homework questions, and more. That’s in part because of a huge batch of new tools and updated features that incorporate ChatGPT, which companies have released in recent weeks.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Today, it boasts a feature that creates customized study plans for students, based on what subjects they need to learn, and by when (usually in time for a big test). It claims its quizzes can deliver feedback specific to students’ responses on open-ended questions.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Don’t just use video for lectures; the format can also be used to welcome students to your class, provide feedback (much preferred by students to print feedback) and walk through assignments. Based on student feedback, you can clarify things like your grading policies. Second, you can’t employ too much video.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2019

Last week, the company received a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Small Business Innovation and Research program to put that idea to the test. This prototype will function less as a fully functional marketplace, and more as a test to see how teachers use the platform.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The Apprentice Learner then makes hypotheses about how the solution steps work and tests those theories on subsequent problems. The human user offers positive or negative feedback from which the tool learns. See the tool in action here. The teacher teaches one ‘student,’ and the computer teaches all the rest,” Koedinger says.

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