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A New Spin on Education: Cognitive Capacity for an Uncertain Future
When students struggle with learning, the problem is often not a matter of curriculum and instruction. Here is why cognitive training matters.
Tech Can’t Teach but it Can Help with Feedback
The pandemic illustrated that technology cannot replace teaching. Still, when it comes to formative assessment, a proven instructional method, there’s a lot tech can do to aid teachers and help accelerate learning.
Mind the Artificial Intelligence Gap
Educators do not need more data. Educators need usable data and the AI solutions that use data as it currently exists, rather than how we imagine it to be.
10 Steps to Develop Great Learners: I Am a Parent Not a Teacher
John and Kyle Hattie share an excerpt from their book 10 Steps to Develop Great Learners.
Codesigning the Future of Edtech Tools
Codesign Product Certification is a new way to signal that tools have been evaluated for performance while engaging in user-center product development.
Profession-Based Movement and The State of Ecosystem in 2022
Gregg Brown shares how to assemble your community, assess your situation, find partners and take action to redesign education.
Can Tech Help Reset Our Expectations?: Packback, Inquiry-Based Learning and the Power of AI
Technology has the potential to democratize students’ access to information – raising our standards of expecting student proficiency towards expecting real skill building and thriving in the classroom.
How to Ensure Learning and Employment Records are Designed With and For Learners
With the promising benefit of LER systems for learners, comes much to understand in how we might include the experience and input of learners—especially those most marginalized or following diverse pathways—in the design, implementation, and evaluation of LER technology.
Northern Alberta Institute of Technology: Adapting and Improving for STEM
The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology finds a more intuitive way to teach complex STEM subjects online and drives online teaching innovation through interdisciplinary faculty collaboration.
Producing More Successful Students Like Grant
Joe Nathan shares the story of Grant Siebert and why young people deserve state leadership that recognizes and gives students the opportunity to shine.