EdTech isn’t Optional, It’s Essential

Sridhar Rajagopalan | August 1, 2014

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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?

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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

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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

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