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EdTech
iAnnotate 3.0 on Sale in the App Store
Annotators are people who get nervous and antsy when they’re reading any kind of text, and they don’t have a pen in their hands to mark it up with. Annotators don’t just consume, they devour. This is what we want from our students.
Personalized Learning
Measuring Mindset in Math 180
To learn more about academic mindset and how to measure it, I called Dockterman, Scholastic's chief architect of learning sciences and an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
EdTech
LightSide Essay Scoring Engine Goes to School
LightSide, a tech spin-out of CMU, improves student writing skills by using machine learning to assess writing. When deployed, their system automatically gives feedback on student essays, encourages revision, and eases the burden of grading for teachers struggling to maintain high standards for classroom writing.
Personalized Learning
Common Choice: Thin Test Prep or Deeper Learning
Higher expectations and engaging learning experiences are compatible. New college and career ready expectations will yield better preparation for American students if education leaders value deeper learning rather than resorting to stifling test prep.
Personalized Learning
Leading for Powerful Learning: Observations & Pictures from Danville
The pictures attached tell a great story! The first three are from Bate where students created furniture from cardboard. Talk about something that required thinking ...WOW! What's also really cool about this is that the kids have included their original design sketches and plans with the furniture, so you can really see their thinking processes.
Ed Policy
Transparent Student Data Can Transform Education
“Next generation textbooks will collect student data and will find the perfect strategy for every concept that a student will ever learn,” said Knewton’s Jose Ferreira (@Knewton_Jose).
EdTech
Killer App: MasteryConnect Reinvents the Report Card
On standards-based grading, MasteryConnect CEO Mick Hewitt has been asking, “How do we get parents to care about this?” Mick believes the answer lies in showing parents a visually appealing report card with access to details of what students are not understanding relative to the state or Common Core standards.
Ed Policy
Preparing Teachers for Deeper Learning
A system of teacher development linked to the needs of hiring entities that awarded licenses based on demonstrated competence would provide personalized development pathways for teachers and ensure well-trained teachers for schools.
Ed Policy
Preparing School Leaders
It's exciting and encouraging to see some of the folks training high performing leaders thinking about blended personalized learning for leaders--not just students. It suggests the potential for more efficient and effective replacements for the system of courses, credits, and credentials. However, enacting these ten attributes at scale would require new state policies governing licensure.
EdTech
3 Quick & Easy Apps to Turn Homework into AnyTimeWork
In fact, three quick and easy smartphones apps to leverage the power of anytimework are Lumify, Snapguide, and Shadow Puppets.