EdTech

Embracing the DARPA Model for EdTech Innovation: Charting the Course with GPT-4 and Beyond

GPT-4 and other disruptive edtech applications will proliferate quickly and need innovative research and development programs to ensure they are safe, effective, and equitable. Adapting the DARPA model to education opens the door for rapid-cycle research and development programs that can keep up with the rapidly evolving technology landscape.

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EdTech

Context Matters: The Why and How of Building Context into School-Based Research

A district’s edtech implementation context has a huge influence on whether edtech tools are effective, but researchers rarely take contextual factors into account in any systematic way. The Edtech Context Inventory (CI), a validated survey from the Edtech Evidence Exchange, helps district teams measure their implementation context so they have evidence to make edtech decisions.

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EdTech

A Transformative School Year with AI

Rachelle Dené Poth shares educator and student thoughts on how emerging tech like AI has impacted their school year.

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New Pathways

Recording Arts as Reengagement, Social Justice and Pathway 

David “TC” Ellis dreamed about a new kind of high school that would reengage learners through musicology and alongside colleagues opened the High School for Recording Arts in 1998. Getting Smart staff shares more on this journey.

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Personalized Learning

Not Your Typical Back-to-School Days at Learner-Centered Sites

Learner-centered leaders recognize the need to help young people lean into their personal development as a critical part of their learning and do so in community with the peers and adults in their environments.

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