ed tech isn't optional, it's essential!
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Sridhar Rajagopalan, MD of Educational Initiatives questions, how important it is for teachers to use educational technologies in the classroom. How often do you or your students use various educational technologies in and outside the classroom? Learn why an overwhelming majority of teachers and administrators think it's "important" or "absolutely essential" to use the edtech tools. What value do these tools actually add?Explore this PPT to find out how!TRANSCRIPT
EdTech isn’t Optional, It’s Essential
Sridhar Rajagopalan | August 1, 2014
www.ei-india.com
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EdTech isn’t Optional – key areas
1. Large Scale Assessments
2. Personalised Learning
3. Tough Problems like Reading
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EdTech isn’t Optional – key areas
1. Large Scale Assessments
2. Personalised Learning
3. Tough Problems like Reading
PROBLEMSProblem understood
and agreed uponProblem NOT understood or agreed upon
Solution known
Engineering Challenge
Solution not known
Wicked Problems!
The Problem with the Educational Challenge
Assessments FOR Learning
Used with educational research
EdTech reveals usefulLearning gaps
Imagine Large Scale Assessments without EdTech
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Using EdTech to gain insights on student misconceptions
Educational Initiatives9
EdTech is the secret to successful Talent Identification
EdTech for Government Level – large scale assessments
http://www.educationalinitiatives.com/GujaratDiagnostic/GD_StudyGraph_Display.php
What is this / What does it represent?
EdTech can help us detect problems AND give us solutions!
Why did only 1% of candidates pass the Teacher Test (TET)?
Insights from EdTech
An effective way of testing if a paper is too long is to check the number of candidates leaving questions towards the end unanswered. Here we find no such increase showing that the paper was NOT too long. Two other items which have high unanswered numbers are also shown. These suggest low candidate skill levels.
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EdTech isn’t Optional – key areas
1. Large Scale Assessments
2. Personalised Learning
3. Tough Problems like Reading
"If you learn how to look at data in the right way, you can explain riddles that otherwise might have seemed impossible. Because there is nothing like the sheer power of numbers to scrub away layers of confusion and contradiction“
- S.D. Levitt (Freakonomics)
"In any system, if the data collection is complicated and time consuming, efforts will go into that and not into what is really important – analysing that data and getting insights from it“
(source unknown)
Why EdTech for Learning?
Headline
Body text
Sub Headline
Quotes if any Personalised Learning systems like Mindspark allow each student to learn with understandingat his/her ownpace.
EdTech for Learning
What distinguishes an effective programme –intelligent responses
3. Path Choice Criteria
4. Decimalians Game5. Flying Photographer6. Number Between Game
Path for L, L1
Personalised Learning
Different Problems
Different Learning Paths
Different Solutions
theme 5Science of Learning
Clearing Student Misconceptions in
DecimalsBased on research at the University of Melbourne by Kaye Stacey , et al.
1. Decimal Comparison Test2. Hidden Numbers Game3. Path Choice Criteria
4. Decimalians Game
5. Flying Photographer
6. Number Between Game
Path for L, L1
1. Decimal Comparison Test 2. Hidden Numbers Game
3. Path Choice Criteria
4. Decimalians Game5. Flying Photographer6. Number Between Game
Path for L, L1
theme 5Science of Learning
Clearing Student Misconceptions in
DecimalsBased on research at the University of Melbourne by Kaye Stacey , et al.
1. Decimal Comparison Test 2. Hidden Numbers Game
3. Path Choice Criteria
4. Decimalians Game5. Flying Photographer6. Number Between Game
Path for L, L1
The Learning GenomeUnderstanding Learning and Misconceptions in Fractions
Toy ClawReading Time (reading the hour and half past)
Honey bees
Games
Magic Colours
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Remedials
Remedial on SAS Congruence criterion Zero Exponent-1
Finding the roots of the quadratic equation Understanding basic expressions
3D tool3D tool
Single solid
Double solid Unit structure
UsageUsage
Standalone tool Intro Questions
ShapesShapes
http://mindspark-ei.s3.amazonaws.com/Enrichment_Modules/html5/enrichments/VSA_tool/src/index.html?functionality=1&queTxt=54&showQuestion=1&shape=cuboid&showWidget=1&dragHeight=dynamic%7C3&dragLength=dynamic%7C3&dragWidth=dynamic%7C6&showSoln=1&showChooseShape=1&shapeDef=OLRRRUDDUFBB&customShape=1&showDimensions=0&opacity=0.8&cubeColor=0xe1bbff5&opacity2=0.2&shapeDef=(1,0,0)~(0,1,0)~(0,0,0)~(0,0,1)~(0,0,-1)&customShape=1&autoRotate=0&unit=inch&showDimensions=0&cubeColor2=0xffaf0e&opacity2=0.9LINK:
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EdTech isn’t Optional – key areas
1. Large Scale Assessments
2. Personalised Learning
3. Tough Problems like Reading
Mindspark Centresfor the Poor
Technology (incl. Tablet) based Reading Assessments
Individualised Student Self-assessment
Thank You
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