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What I Learned From an Experiment to Apply Generative AI to My Data Course

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As a lecturer at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, where I teach econometrics and research methods, I spend a lot of time thinking about the intersection between data, education and social justice — and how generative AI will reshape the experience of gathering, analyzing and using data for change.

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Is It Ethical to Run Learning Experiments On Students Without Their Knowledge?

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You see an opportunity to make a small change that might improve their learning outcomes, so you roll it out to a group of students who don’t know they are part of the sample. But if researchers are A/B testing two innocuous options, what’s the harm? Imagine you’re an edtech company with thousands of students on your platform.

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

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Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. I started learning about the diaspora through books and archives when I attended a historically Black university (HBCU) for graduate school. My wife and I chose Aniefuna because in studying Black history, we learned that our land was never lost.

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Learning by Working Together: Developing and Checking for Group Integration Across Diverse Disciplinary Cohorts

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As such, this process involves equal status reciprocal peer learning and essentially means learning about another context beyond their own, but in a shared way. Integrative questionnaire design: In delivering a social research methods module, a shared questionnaire document could be an active boundary object.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

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We put all students in the same learning environment and expect that one learning environment will lead to the same outcome for all students. I wonder sometimes if the work we see students submit that maybe isn’t as awesome as we’d like, if it’s because of the way we’ve set up the learning environment.

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It’s Time to Ditch the Idea of Edtech Disruption. But What Comes Next?

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COVID-19 was edtech’s big moment, and while digital tools kept learning going for many families and schools, they also faltered. I’d say it’s technocentrism , a concept introduced by Seymour Papert, renowned mathematician, learning theorist and edtech pioneer. So what is this philosophy? Papert diagnosed this issue back in 1987.

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One Standardized Tests Provider Looks to Gaming and Personalized Learning to Innovate Exams

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Aligning tests with the ways students learn in the classroom is one of Gorin’s goals. Her research team has been evaluating ways to consider aspects of personalized learning and gaming into their tests, a project she describes as difficult but necessary. Help or Hindrance? It makes those comparisons difficult.”

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