eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Finalists navigated a series of interactive challenges and were evaluated on their ingenuity and innovative thinking, application of STEM principles, demonstration of passion and research, presentation skills, and ability to inspire others. I am beyond impressed and inspired by their intelligence and their scientific minds.

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

Emerging technologies, like artificial intelligence, may be able to help. Artificial intelligence to personalize, not standardize assessments Technology has long shaped schools’ approach to assessment.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 21, 2024

Like many of our colleagues, the emergence of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence sites initially created a mild panic. Students regularly shared they were not interested in using a generative intelligence site to complete their work—they were not ready to trust AI with their learning, and more specifically, course grades.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A diverse group of judges will evaluate entries based on creativity, scientific knowledge, and effective communication skills. created Spark Care+, an innovation that personalizes music therapy treatment for mental health improvement using artificial intelligence (AI), skin response (GSR) and photoplethysmography (PPG).

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Artificial intelligence (AI) Systems designed to carry out tasks autonomously rather than being specifically programmed by humans. Artificial intelligence systems can reflect the biases of their creators, resulting in inferior and often prejudicial experiences for underrepresented users.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Sarah created Spark Care+, an innovation that personalizes music therapy treatment for mental health improvement using artificial intelligence (AI), skin response (GSR) and photoplethysmography (PPG). Each finalist was evaluated through a series of interactive, virtual challenges and the final presentation of their innovation.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence tool that was released in November 2022. With its impressive ability to understand human language, it is clear that ChatGPT can be leveraged in optimizing assessment and evaluation in higher education. Every time I use ChatGPT, I am amazed at its capability.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Developed with learning science, psychometrics and artificial intelligence, Imbellus is a digital, scenario-based assessment set in the context of the natural world. That concept is not inherently bad, as long as the test in question is a fair and accurate measure of what a person is capable of—but in many cases, Kantar says, it’s not. “We

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2024

For example, one performance expectation in our district’s Next Generation Science Standards -aligned curriculum reads: Students who demonstrate understanding can evaluate the validity and reliability of claims in published materials of the effects that different frequencies of electromagnetic radiation have when absorbed by matter.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 8, 2023

Most people believe basic human qualities like intelligence and talent are fixed traits: nature supersedes nurture. Students are responsible for setting the patterns and strategies that allow them to succeed, by evaluating what they can do at any given point and making a plan for learning everything else. What is Growth Mindset?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Today, edtech is no longer a primary topic of interest, but a subtopic of other primary technology topics: artificial intelligence, information technologies and robotics. Rather, all future applicants seeking funding for edtech projects will be evaluated and compete for funding alongside other applications in AI, IT and robotics.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

Or if success looks like a student likely to graduate in four years, high school grades may matter more, says Bob Schaeffer, interim executive director of the National Center for Fair & Open Testing, an organization that advocates against reliance on standardized tests. “We Yet Zwick, author of the book “Who Gets In?

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Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence tool that was released in November 2022. With its impressive ability to understand human language, it is clear that ChatGPT can be leveraged in optimizing assessment and evaluation in higher education. Every time I use ChatGPT, I am amazed at its capability.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Students for Fair Admissions, which is suing the university for allegedly discriminating against Asian American applicants, will have access to “academic, extracurricular, demographic and other information” from all undergrads who applied to Harvard between the fall 2009 and spring 2015, omitting names and Social Security numbers.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

Realizing that I am also at risk for heart issues, I’ve become more interested in regularly evaluating my heart. A fair warning when playing Minecraft Earth, especially while walking: The app is a significant battery hog unless you turn on battery saver mode.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

With the students’ ease of access to artificial intelligence tools and the unprecedented speed and accuracy that these tools can generate assignments for students, teaching professionals have to respond immediately and effectively to this new reality so they ensure that what students deliver is their own production, not that of an AI tool.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

While pursuing a degree goes beyond enhancing job opportunities, it remains a significant aspect of the academic experience and often influences evaluations of courses and institutions. Consequently, self-evaluations should be constructively critical, especially in terms of the current situation and goal.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Let students know they will be evaluated on those criteria more than the perfection of their work. But make it fair. If you have one, please share it in comments: “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” Let students teach each other. There are many paths to success.

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2019

The competition evaluated startups on the quality of their innovation, their impact to date, and their potential to scale. Finally, there was also room for more use of artificial intelligence technologies to improve outcomes. One of the key areas of focus for the competition was to identify purposeful and impactful innovation.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

While pursuing a degree goes beyond enhancing job opportunities, it remains a significant aspect of the academic experience and often influences evaluations of courses and institutions. Consequently, self-evaluations should be constructively critical, especially in terms of the current situation and goal.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

With the students’ ease of access to artificial intelligence tools and the unprecedented speed and accuracy that these tools can generate assignments for students, teaching professionals have to respond immediately and effectively to this new reality so they ensure that what students deliver is their own production, not that of an AI tool.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

While ChatGPT seems to have sprung up overnight to dominate current headlines, legislative discussions, and professional debates—ranging from doomsday predictions to practical celebrations related to improved efficiency with menial labor tasks—the introduction of this online Artificial Intelligence (AI) program can be traced back to 2018.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2018

Most people believe basic human qualities like intelligence and talent are fixed traits: nature supersedes nurture. Students are responsible for setting the patterns and strategies that allow them to succeed, by evaluating what they can do at any given point and making a plan for learning everything else. What is Growth Mindset?

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Whiteboard Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

In the rapidly evolving landscape of education, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative force. Ethical Considerations Bias and Fairness : AI systems can inadvertently perpetuate biases present in their training data. However, with great power comes great responsibility.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 7, 2018

MILLER: A lot of schools are starting to dabble in augmented and virtual reality, the AR/VR space, as well as artificial intelligence. EDTECH: What new tools do you suggest using from Google’s G Suite for Education? With AR/VR, students create content in AR and consume it through VR. MILLER: Absolutely. Content Subtype. CDW Activity ID.

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Elevate k12

JUNE 15, 2024

Whether youre presenting the school on a webpage or at a job fair, branding helps solidify a potential recruits understanding of the culture. For example, if you subscribe to the Multiple Intelligences (MI) model , you might discuss the broad strokes of how teachers integrate the theory in the classroom.

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EAB

JUNE 30, 2023

When every department has access to the same metrics, they can be evaluated fairly against those metrics. Improve Advancement efforts through more intelligent fundraising As Advancement gets more targeted in its approach to fundraising appeals, it has become more reliant on data.

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EAB

JULY 11, 2023

And do you feel that it's fair to say that most colleges want to diversify their enrollment and what do you expect will happen to Penn and other universities should the Supreme Court strike down affirmative action and ambitions? Let's make some intelligent decisions that we can agree upon. So thank you so much for sharing that.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

It’s a classic idea : In the 1600s it was the basic model of evaluation at Oxford and Cambridge (with the grilling by professors done in Latin), and it was pretty much what Socrates did to his students. And oral evaluations of student learning do still happen occasionally — like when graduate students defend their theses and dissertations.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

He says they also want to emphasize behavioral and affective skills, like emotional intelligence, empathy and collaboration. But he adds that his organization and the Carnegie Foundation are not interested only in measuring technical skills that employers might prize.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 6, 2025

Executive Functioning Skills When kids decide how to occupy themselves out of boredom, they activate executive functions like decision-making, goal-setting, and evaluating outcomes, skills essential for leadership, learning, and life success. Host a Boredom Fair where students present ideas or creations sparked from unstructured time.

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