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Choosing Wisely: Lessons for Leaders in AI Integration

ED Surge

And while CEO Barry Malkin is excited that today's artificial intelligence has the power to personalize education in ways we couldn't have imagined just a year and a half ago, it hasn't changed how Carnegie approaches AI: with humans in mind. Carnegie Learning was way ahead of its time with that early version of AI.

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OPINION: Online homework tools trade ‘busy work’ for feedback to help end inequities in schools

The Hechinger Report

As a computer scientist and a former middle-school math teacher, I believe strongly that we can marry the promise of new technology and evidence-based instructional practices to address inequities in our public school system. Nightly online homework, monitored by a teacher, may help to close achievement gaps.

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Vote for Digital Promise’s SXSW and SXSW EDU 2018 Session Ideas

Digital Promise

Applying Research to Truly Personalize Learning. One critical aspect of personalized learning is too often missing: the use of learning sciences research to best understand and reach each learner. School leaders continue to report difficulty finding reliable evidence about ed tech efficacy. Can Students Create VR?

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My trip to the Alien Zoo: a virtual Biology 101 class

The Hechinger Report

Michael Crow, president of Arizona State, said the technology creates a memory of learning that isn’t associated with a rigid, structured way of learning science. “We They took place in regular reality, in a tiny middle school in Southern Oregon where, at dissection time, the entire hallway reeked of formaldehyde.

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How Research-Based Tools Provide Impactful Learning Outcomes

ED Surge

Malkin: Carnegie Learning originated at Carnegie Mellon University, one of the most respected research universities in the country, known for its work in education and cognitive science. So research, data and learning science have always been at the core of what we do.

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Helping Students Think With Their Whole Bodies

ED Surge

And that sparked her interest in digging into learning science research that she’s gathered into a recent book, “ The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain.” And so embodied cognition suggests that this head-first or brain-bound approach to learning is really misguided.