למידה, אינטרנט ... ומה שביניהם

student-centered learning practices tend to share a common (if sometimes unspoken) goal: to develop learners’ capability for self-directed, lifelong learning by granting more control and responsibility for the learning process

There is no active role for the learner in this “personalized” experience. These systems reduce all the richness and complexity of deciding what a learner should be doing to – sometimes literally – a “Next” button. As these systems painstakingly work to learn how each student learns, the individual students lose out on the opportunity to learn this for themselves. Continued use of a system like this seems likely to create dependency in learners, as they stop stretching their metacognitive muscles and defer all decisions about what, when, and how long to study to The Machine.

to develop an approach that – if you’ll pardon the play on words – puts the person back in personalization

We believe very strongly in this “machine provides recommendations, people make decisions” paradigm.

First, Lumen is acknowledging that though developing learners’ understanding of the material is critical, there is a higher, more profound goal of learner autonomy.

Second, Lumen is using the power of learning analytics to improve learning habits through self-reflectiveness as a means to travel on the path toward autonomy.

There are lots of ways that a thoughtful user interface designer can think about progressively revealing some of this information and providing “nudges” that encourage students on certain paths while still giving them the knowledge and freedom they need to make choices for themselves.

האם המחשבים של גוגל ומיקרוסופט ישנו את אופן הלמידה של תלמידי ישראל?

ילדי ישראל אמנם גדלים כדור דיגיטלי לכל דבר, אך מערכת החינוך מתקשה להדביק את הפער ■ ההורים עדיין רוכשים ספרי לימוד, הילדים עדיין סוחבים והשימוש בלמידה אינטראקטיבית יחסית מועט ■ המחשב שהופך לטאבלט, מצויד בעט מגע ועמיד לנפילות - עשוי לחולל את השינוי

תוך מספר שנים הכיתה בה התלמידים לומדים בבתי הספר תשתנה כליל.

מלבד הורדת משקל מגב התלמיד, מעבר לעולם הדיגיטלי מאפשר לילדים ולבני נוער ללמוד באופן אינטראקטיבי, לחפש באופן מהיר ויעיל בספרים ובעיקר להעשיר את החומר הנלמד על ידי סרטונים, מצגות והתנסויות שונות.

Internet Searches May Make You Think You’re Smarter Than You Are

People who had been allowed to search online tended to rate their knowledge higher than people who answered without any outside sources.

We think the information is leaking into our head, but really the information is stored somewhere else entirely

The more we rely on the Internet, Fisher says, the harder it will be to draw a line between where our knowledge ends and the web begins.

We are not forced to face our own ignorance and ask for help; we can just look up the answer immediately. … We think these features make it more likely for people to consider knowledge stored online as their own.”

Online Education May Be Poised To Take Off

How political candidates' education plans could benefit Silicon Valley

After a long ramp-up and slow, but steady growth, the online education trend could finally be poised to take its place within academia's hallowed halls.

For employers looking for skilled talent, that could open up the floodgates, as students may freely pursue higher learning without fear of deep debt.

For entrepreneurs interested in an emerging sector, education may be ready to move from the fringe to the center of the action.

They analyze more deeply what they always have — things like poor attendance and failing grades. But they are also beginning to factor in new kinds of data: how far students live from campus, how many hours a week they work, even how often they log on to the university Wi-Fi network.

One thing can’t tell you, but the right combination can. Universities are using IBM Analytics to understand pressures in and out of the classroom. Some expect to cut dropout rates by 25%.

there is one case study for Ithaca College about increasing retention rates by 4% and another for Brockenhurst College about their expectation “to improve student recruitment and retention by 15 percent over a five-year period”.

Persistence Plus provided automated and interactive outreach to students in targeted courses. Students received daily nudges that relied on a variety of behavioral levers, such as social norming and goal commitment, to support them on the path to success and graduation

Each of these studies involved a trivially small and inexpensive intervention, with effects that rival the gains from some of the most expensive efforts in education.

Defenders of the work argue that affluent students are already the recipients of endless nudges, primes and reminders from parents, teachers and counselors, and these interventions just level the playing field.

I think it would be immoral not to send students a few text messages if we knew that could help struggling students improve their grades or get to college.

I was speaking this morning to someone who runs Montessori pre-schools in Africa and needs to track achievement of various Montessori tasks/activities. OK. Makes sense. Then she said, "And we're working on tying those to standards. We're using the Common Core from the US." Sure, we can do that.