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Want to Humanize Classrooms? Take a Page From Youth Organizers.

ED Surge

In the winter of 2020, I participated in a two-day youth organizing retreat in Detroit. Young people from organizations across the city came together to learn about community organizing, build community and develop a city-wide education justice campaign. To do so is to see our students as full humans.

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EdTech Promised to Change How Students Learn, But the Real Revolution Lies Within Us

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To understand how technology can change the way students learn and work together, you only have to go back to March 2020. Coincidentally, the “edtech” industry experienced an unprecedented renaissance in 2020 that was only outpaced by an even bigger boom in 2021.

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PROOF POINTS: A crowdsourcing approach to homework help

The Hechinger Report

Related: Three lessons from rigorous research on education technology. Source: “Effectiveness of Crowd-Sourcing On-Demand Assistance from Teachers in Online Learning Platforms,” August 2020 Learning at Scale. I see that you haven’t done anything in three days’,” Heffernan explained to me.

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When a College Chatbot Breaks Up With You

ED Surge

Beginning in October 2020, it texted them twice a week, week after week, as they started their applications, then considered financial aid packages, decided where to enroll, made plans over the summer for getting to campus and settled into their routines as freshmen. But some of Oli’s human correspondents had more to say.

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Reframing ed tech to save teachers time and reduce workloads

The Hechinger Report

For much of the previous decade, advocates of education technology imagined a classroom where computer algorithms would differentiate instruction for each student, delivering just the right lessons at the right time, like a personal tutor. Higher Education. So it was interesting to see McKinsey & Co., Weekly Update.

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Learning to teach from naughty avatars

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Courtesy of the Curry School of Education and Human Development. The coronavirus school closures have triggered a mass experiment in using educational technology, from video conferencing to automated feedback. When we see it without outside coaching support, people dig into negative beliefs about kids.

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AI Is Disrupting Professions That Require College Degrees. How Should Higher Ed Respond?

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The researchers looked at dozens of skills people use in their jobs, such as writing and reasoning, and then analyzed the potential for new AI tools to either supplant or support humans in those tasks. It takes a really long time before technology has these really dramatic changes,” he says. “In I’ve never seen a driverless Tesla.”