The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Personalized education was already big pre-pandemic, but home schooling and digital instruction made more parents and teachers embrace the idea. With a shortage of human teachers, many schools jumped on the bandwagon of using technology that collects each child’s personal data and tailors content accordingly.

Educational Technology 141

Educational Technology Education Humanities Research 141

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The big danger, he argues in his book, is that autocorrect and other AI algorithms are altering our lives so much that humans will act more like, say, Twitter bots, rather than Twitter bots acting more like humans. Smith lays out his views in a new book, “ The Internet is Not What You Think It is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning.”

Humanities 104

Humanities Library History Educational Technology 104

ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

Renee Dawson Educational Technology Specialist at Atlanta Public Schools “Augmented reality is when you take something that you can already see in the world and add an interactive or experiential layer on top. What does AR look like in the humanities? It gives humanities a relevant context.”

Lesson Plan 130

Lesson Plan Artifacts Educational Technology Interactive Learning 130

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

An initial version of this AI Scientist has already been released — anyone can download the code for free. And if it works, the project raises a host of existential questions about what role human researchers — the workforce that powers much of higher education — would play in the future. And plenty of people have.

Library 128

Library Humanities Research Education 128

ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Access to high-quality education is widely recognized as a pivotal tool for alleviating poverty, mitigating the spread of disease and malnutrition, fostering children's overall welfare and empowering women. We take a bottom-up approach to education technology in a way that is contextual and responsible. Already using Kolibri?

EdTech 109

EdTech Education Library Project-Based Learning 109

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

It comes from a wide range of education technology products, assessments and other sources — there’s data from reading programs, math programs, state tests, daily quizzes, student history and more, each one a single puzzle piece that could be linked to other pieces to create a unified picture, but that, more often than not, stands alone.

K-12 102

K-12 Project-Based Learning Public School Educational Technology 102

ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

How many of us have downloaded the updated agreement for our iPhone without reading it?” I don't think in two or three years people will be disclosing the use of AI — it’ll be in our workflows — but it's important to learn from each other and tie it back to human involvement in the process. Smith says. “If It’ll eventually go away.”

K-12 105

K-12 Lesson Plan Middle School Humanities 105