The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

They expressed worry that they often don’t get to see the data that is being kept on them, and that computers lack the ability to form human relationships needed to gather contextual information about their lives. The students invited to speak at EduCon had been discussing the use of data in education in class and doing their own research.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 2, 2010

One is to complain, and it’s human nature to do that. Getting better does not have to involve educational technology. It could simply be developing an authentic-based unit of instruction in collaboration with a teacher from another department, attending graduate classes, or reading the latest research in the field.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Given students’ interest in technology, educational technology tools are a promising way to motivate them to learn. Research shows there are four elements that help students become naturally motivated to learn: challenge , goals , feedback , and curiosity. To read more on Student Motivation, visit the Research Map.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

One of the few replicated findings in education research is that daily, individualized tutoring during the school day really helps kids catch up academically. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In theory, educational software could be a cheaper alternative. What if you were to marry humans with technology?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Bowen, a principal research associate at the Urban Institute, wanted to fill the dearth of accessible teaching resources with sessions on coding, cartography, and—of course—Bowen’s pet-prolific workshop on data collection and visualization. It’s not like we’re born as human beings knowing how to read a bar chart,” Schwabish says.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

Teaching aides are at least as effective in tutoring as licensed teachers, and far more effective than volunteer tutors, research shows Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Related: Three lessons from rigorous research on education technology. Nobody’s trained in that aspect… It happens naturally.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In the latest failure of texting, researchers nudged more than 800,000 high school students to apply for federal financial aid. Researchers sent texts about how to fill out financial aid forms, how to collect the required information and deadlines. (1/2) Researchers are confident that nudging texts did produce real benefits.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 12, 2022

While it’s difficult to determine how much has been spent on Edtech , we do know that investments in education technology companies have nearly quadrupled since the beginning of the pandemic. As recently as last year, the SEL industry produced nearly $1.725 billion in sales. Need to foster relationships between students?

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Her application is called TalkMoves, and a version of Jacob’s research is now being used by the tutoring company Saga Education to train first-time tutors. A researcher at the University of Southern California, she has been working on AI-based professional development for math teachers for several years.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

Recently, EdSurge talked with ISTE researchers who managed Teacher Ready, a research-driven project that (1) provides edtech decision-makers with tools to validly and reliably evaluate edtech, and (2) helped expand the ISTE Seal of Alignment certification by integrating user experience and product usability components.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

A mounting body of evidence indicates that technology in schools isn’t boosting student achievement as its proponents had hoped it would. Eighth graders who reported using computers to conduct research for projects had higher reading test scores than those who didn’t use computers for research. Higher Education.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

That’s the argument of Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, who has spent years researching what works in teaching. But the researcher says he has heard from hundreds of teachers who have reported improvements in test scores. This is human nature. How did that go?

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Digital Promise

JULY 17, 2017

Over the years, I’ve been involved in developing research programs and projects in education technology, games, and virtual reality. As I’ve developed my thinking around funding and conducting research in learning technologies, I always come back to an unpublished technical report written by one of my early mentors in the Navy.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

Our collective responsibilities range from curating extensive collections, providing instructional services and supporting research activities, to ensuring the accessibility and relevance of our digital and physical resources for our students and faculty members. This dynamic is significantly magnified within the education workforce.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Theres nothing like one-to-one interaction with a human being, Perez says. Early (Childhood) Investment Steven Barnett, founder and senior co-director of the National Institute for Early Education Research, says that the NAEP reading results are not what anyone wanted to see.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2025

What New Research Says About Fostering a Sense of Belonging in Classrooms There are key junctures in education that are especially important for helping students feel they belong in school or college. But some teaching experts say tutoring should be reserved for humans who can motivate and understand the students they work with.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

Computerized instruction offers the promise of a technological version of a personal tutor, giving instant feedback and tailoring lessons for each child’s needs. Yet even advocates of educational technology recognize the motivating power of a human teacher to encourage a demoralized student or clear up a point of confusion.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

Educational transformation is a civil rights imperative, so every investment we make must be evaluated through a civil rights lens. Unfortunately, too many of our investments in educational technology (edtech) have fallen far short of our civil rights aspirations. Technology should support rather than replace human interactions.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 27, 2025

AI is no longer confined to tech companies and research labs; it's entering the heart of educational administration, offering unprecedented opportunities to enhance efficiency, improve decision-making and ultimately better serve students and families. This technology is not about replacing human judgment but augmenting it.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Screenshot courtesy of Gregory Kestin) We are still in the early days of understanding the promise and peril of using generative AI in education. Very few researchers have evaluated whether students are benefiting, and one well-designed study showed that using ChatGPT for math actually harmed student achievement.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2024

Within this technocentrist frame, education is sick and edtech is like medicine. Entrepreneurs and developers try to make the best possible drug to treat students, while administrators and researchers (myself included) stand guard, testing and validating the treatments. This doesn’t mean this kind of research should stop.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In theory, education technology could redesign school from a factory-like assembly line to an individualized experience. On the strength of those results, an MIT research organization singled out ASSISTments as one of the rare ed tech tools proven to help students.

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Digital Promise

JULY 16, 2019

Access to technology for all students is a major goal for many schools, companies, and organizations—yet access is only part of the equation. Once an educational technology (edtech) tool is in a school, the hard work is just beginning due to a number of potential hurdles and challenges that leadership and educators need to overcome.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Digital credentials, which adhere to open interoperability standards, provide a machine and human-readable way to showcase those skills and make it easier for potential employers to verify those claims. Skills-based credentials are valuable because they state specific skills in which a learner achieved or displayed competence.

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ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2024

I believe that placing people, not technology, at the center of these decisions is how educators should embrace AI, discover new ways of incorporating its capabilities, and use its power to promote equitable student success. AI is now reshaping how students learn, and its widespread use has created some complexities in education.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

Both technologies have made their way into classrooms, leaving educational researchers wondering about their differences and implications for learning. What does AR look like in the humanities? It gives humanities a relevant context.” How does augmented reality engage all students?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2020

Related: Three lessons from rigorous research on education technology. Only a human tutor, sitting next to a student during homework time, would be able to figure out the proper hint that an individual student needs in a particular moment. Related: Three lessons from data on the best ways to give feedback to students.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2020

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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

University of Virginia researchers find that classroom simulations, combined with coaching, help prospective teachers improve their classroom management skills. Credit: Courtesy of the Curry School of Education and Human Development. The school of education follows the “ Responsive Classroom ” approach to managing behavior. ).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2022

It’s the future, the next big frontier of the internet, if you ask technology CEOs or researchers. While the term has become the latest buzzword in education circles, what it means for teaching and learning largely remains to be seen. Or it can take students inside the human body to enter a cell or go into space.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The program promised to recruit the best teachers in the world to provide engaging lessons to students and the school felt technology could do it better. After learning that most companies don’t actually research whether their platform works , I realized that the missing piece I was not considering in this puzzle was me.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

However, as with any shift in traditional practices, there are some kinks to be worked out in terms of leveraging technology to our greatest advantage. Through research and trials, Hall found CalendarBridge , which addresses his scheduling pain point.

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ED Surge

JULY 15, 2024

A statement issued by the school district said “several educational technology companies are interested in acquiring” AllHere to continue its work, though nothing concrete has been announced. Are they taking appropriate technical steps to make sure that data is secure and there won’t be a breach or something intentional by an employee?”

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Digital Promise

MARCH 9, 2015

At universities across the country, researchers are designing and running experiments to better understand learning. Education researchers and learning scientists are studying a range of topics such as motivation, engagement, learning progressions, memory, literacy, child development, and learning disabilities. What research?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2021

In many cases, she said, “they’re getting an education that’s largely created by a whole other entity that may or may not have good outcomes.”. Educational technology: $16 billion. They spend $16 billion annually on educational technology , projected to rise to $20 billion by 2024, BMO Capital Markets estimates.

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ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2024

But not everyone thinks this is a good idea, since the tech is prone to “hallucinations,” where chatbots make up facts, and there’s the bigger issue of whether any machine can fill in for a human in something as deeply personal as one-on-one tutoring. I've always been fascinated by, ‘What could we learn potentially from technology?’

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Humans write its dialogue , but its conversational cadence is driven by algorithms that are programmed to pick up the nuances in student responses in order to reply with additional relevant comments. When it first texts a student, it identifies itself as a bot and explains how to reach out to a human if needed. Some sort of bond—real?

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