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How Much Longer Will Schools Have to Scrape Together Technology Funding?

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These one-time gifts from billionaires and multinational corporations are welcomed by most schools, but they are not enough to close gaps in access to learning technologies nor ultimately a sustainable financing solution for technology infrastructure. The National Educational Technology Plan , created by the U.S.

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Option 3: Actually USE the smartphones

Dangerously Irrelevant

Murphy & Beland’s recent study is making the rounds online, particularly among those who are eager to find reasons to ban learning technologies in classrooms. Most schools I know didn’t adopt their learning technology initiatives for the sole purpose of test score improvement. (if if they did, how sad is that?).

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Why the Pandemic Forces Administrators to Rethink Attendance — and Interoperability

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Unsurprisingly, concerns over the expected “COVID slide” began to take shape almost as quickly as the emergency response plans, with the learning loss projected to be especially dire for those students already at risk of failure.

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From Good Intentions to Real Shortcomings: An Edtech Reckoning

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Justin Reich, Executive Director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab, and I summarized this existing evidence in our report that resulted from the series of meetings this past year, “ From Good Intentions to Real Outcomes: Equity by Design in Learning Technologies.” Despite the sobering findings, 2017 offered some notable bright spots.

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Essential Considerations for Addressing the Possibility of AI-Driven Cheating, Part 2

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Figure 2: Screenshot of the Social Engagement section in the User Experience Research Project Final Reflection document Trial and Error is about giving students the opportunity to learn through failure. Students can often learn more from productive failure than from success (Sinha & Kapur, 2021).

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Essential Considerations for Addressing the Possibility of AI-Driven Cheating, Part 2

Faculty Focus

Figure 2: Screenshot of the Social Engagement section in the User Experience Research Project Final Reflection document Trial and Error is about giving students the opportunity to learn through failure. Students can often learn more from productive failure than from success (Sinha & Kapur, 2021).

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Leveling Up Language Learners’ 21st-Century Skills with Minecraft

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Playing in survival mode, a new player is quickly required to learn the basics. However, each failure is a learning experience. As they learn, they start to hypothesise, experiment, reflect and adjust. When a player spawns to start a new game, the map stretches in all directions. They fail.and fail a great deal.

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