Edsurge

JULY 19, 2023

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?

Knowledge 145

Knowledge Educational Technologies Technology Education 145

Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2023

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.’

Internet 215

Internet Attention Students Evaluation 215

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

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.

Skills 167

Skills Critical Thinking Communication Gamification 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2016

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].

Textbooks 134

Textbooks Mental Models Coaching Communication 134

Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 6, 2019

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.

Learning 88

Learning Schools Mental Models Discussions 88

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

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.

Mental Models 180

Mental Models Education Ethics Learning 180

Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2016

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.”

Textbooks 149

Textbooks Mental Models Lecturing English 149