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Gaby Richard-Harrington

Boasts About Textbooks Aligned to Common Core a 'Sham,' Say Researchers - Digital Educa... - 0 views

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textbooks common core standards aligned

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  • His team analyzed 40-50 textbooks covering first through ninth grades—books that are used by roughly 60 percent of U.S. school children—that were purportedly aligned to the new standards. "Page by page, paragraph by paragraph," many were identical to the old, pre-standards textbooks, he said.
  • The books, he found, were "only modestly aligned to the common core" and "systematically failed to reach the higher levels of cognitive demand" called for in the standards. From 15 to 20 percent of the material covered in the books was not tied to grade-level common-core standards, and most of the books failed to cover between 10 and 15 percent of the content in the standards.
  • The books were about 60 percent to 70 percent identical to their earlier, pre-common-core versions, Polikoff found.
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  • Teachers—many of whom support, but don't understand, the new standards, he said—tend to teach what is in their textbooks, his research has found.
  • When that material doesn't match what's in the standards, it's a big problem.
  • same questions and fears apply to new digital instructional materials
  • Share My Lesson could play an important role in helping educators plug the common-core holes left by traditional textbook publishers, Polikoff said
  • is finally having "coherent" standards that focus on high-level conceptual understanding.
  • "Don't spend your money until [instructional materials] arrive that actually fully line up" with the new standards, Schmidt said he advises districts.
Gaby Richard-Harrington

What trends are shaping ed tech in 2014? | Education Dive - 0 views

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  • personalized learning to improved access to educational content worldwide
  • overlap in goals as they work to improve education
  • "Year of the MOOC,"
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  • Completion rates haven't been impressive, but do conventional course metrics like completion rates still matter in that format?
  • sees MOOCs taking a turn toward vocational learning
  • Meanwhile, edX founder Anant Agarwal, speaking at CES' TransformingEDU conference last month, said he sees MOOCs facilitating the traditional campus learning experience in a blended, active learning environment.
  • EduClipper, which is something of a Pinterest for educators, recently unveiled its free iPad app. That network alone has over 200,000 users and has been incorporated into over 4,500 classrooms. 
  • all-in-one platform approach. Blackboard Learn, for example, now combines social media features, analytics, and a library of tools that can be used to incorporate a variety of content into class materials. Desire2Learn, Pearson's Open Class Exchange, and others have taken similar approaches.
  • Alma, an LMS and SIS solution launching this week, makes curriculum management, gradebook, report cards, student records, and data analytics functionality all in one place. Furthermore, it provides its core features free. Paid add-ons include custom report cards, custom report building, state reporting, SMS text messaging and automated voice calls, advanced class scheduling, and records migration and support services.
  • Engrade, which began as a student-created gradebook, also offers a one-stop platform in the K-12 space and was announced Tuesday as the latest acquisition of McGraw-Hill Education.
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