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The Best Edtech for Students Is Backed by Research. Here’s What to Look For.

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Our work at the nonprofit Education Development Center’s Center for Children and Technology focuses on how education technology can be used to support learning. The truth is edtech products that foster more learning than would happen in analogue settings can be difficult to find.

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VR, PBL, and OERs: Four High Hopes for Learning with Edtech in the New School Year

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Well, I’ve spotted some tools and strategies that have amazing potential to empower students and teachers to engage and learn more with the world beyond their school. Another student could find photographs of places or inventions he wants to study and then create augmented reality-triggered videos of himself explaining what he’s learned.

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What a Summer Prototype Taught Us About Measuring Quality in an Unbundled Education System

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In the summer of 2016, a community of educators, research design partners, and over 150 teens and young adults in Colorado engaged in a bold experiment to rethink how quality and impact might be measured in a modernized system of learning. In this relatively small, short-cycle prototype, the lessons we learned were significant.

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Using the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) Framework to Examine an Authentic Project-based Research Symposium

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Students often enter undergraduate research-based courses feeling academically underprepared and/or intimidated by the task of understanding and presenting research to their peers and professionals. The courses that focus on research are foundational for social sciences majors. What were your personal learning goals?

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Engineers Week — A Must for High School

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Future City challenges middle-school students to take four months to imagine, research, design, and build cities of the future using the free platform SimCity. Participants share photos, honor colleagues, and/or engage students in everything engineering. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. Global Day.

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ChatGPT in the Co-creation Process for Applied Research Projects 

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ChatGPT’s emergence and subsequent evolution as a generative artificial intelligence tool introduces new ways of assisting students with research design. Large language models 1 Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are complex algorithms developed through a type of machine learning called deep learning.

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ChatGPT in the Co-creation Process for Applied Research Projects 

Faculty Focus

ChatGPT’s emergence and subsequent evolution as a generative artificial intelligence tool introduces new ways of assisting students with research design. Large language models 1 Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are complex algorithms developed through a type of machine learning called deep learning.

Ethics 109