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Are Latino ‘Systems of Knowledge’ Missing From Education Technology?

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public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. EdSurge recently posed a question to a panel of Latino educators and an edtech leader: Is educational technology serving the Latino community, particularly its students? Who Is Edtech Made for?

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How to Help Students Avoid Getting Duped Online — and by AI Chatbots

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That's really hard for academics to wrap their heads around — that the answer to every question is not just apply deep attention, but that attention is your limited resource. A large language model (LLM) like ChatGPT isn't thinking in any sense that we normally define thinking. This person is probably not worth my time.’

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Its 2019. So Why Do 21st-Century Skills Still Matter?

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Although some educators have grown weary of the term “21st century learning,” the drive to transform education “matters more today—a lot more—than when we started the conversation.” Ken Kay, CEO of EdLeader21 Figuring out how schools should respond, however, remains an open question for many communities.

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Checking Your Edtech Assumptions

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The methodology, more practical than scientific, posed three central questions: Have you ever used edtech tools [in a given category]? With the answers to these questions, attendees self-identified themselves into one of four levels of expertise: I’m totally, completely winging it [when it comes to understanding product assumptions].

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Book review – Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow’s Schools, Today

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There are numerous ways to give students access to deeper learning, greater student agency, and more authentic work opportunities that don’t involve learning technologies. If there are two solid pages of bullet points, maybe those could be tied together into some kind of model that illustrates the connectivity of the disparate parts.

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Why Education Is a ‘Wicked Problem’ for Learning Engineers to Solve

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In a recent conversation with EdSurge, Goel discussed how learning engineering researchers are applying artificial intelligence to help make high-quality education accessible, affordable and effective on a grand scale. The professor also acknowledged the many ethical questions raised by such efforts. It's just not going to happen.

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What If We Stopped Calling Them Classrooms?

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The mental model of the traditional classroom is obsolete,” he told the crowd of college technology leaders. “It The conference session was pitched as a debate on the question, “Is the Classroom Dead?” It does not take into account all of the developments that we know about the way people learn.”

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