{"id":52623,"date":"2015-12-04T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=52623"},"modified":"2015-12-04T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T22:00:00","slug":"how-education-will-be-smarter-less-intrusive-and-able-to-respond-to-how-you-feel-kumar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2015\/12\/04\/how-education-will-be-smarter-less-intrusive-and-able-to-respond-to-how-you-feel-kumar\/","title":{"rendered":"How education will be smarter, less intrusive, and able to respond to how you feel [Kumar]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Numerous technologies involved with education continue to get better.\u00a0 Still, students don’t always have the discipline to be totally on their own…and I often read that learners desire someone to help them navigate through the content.\u00a0 (This can be done online as well, I realize.)\u00a0 Those things said, the article below caught my eye.<\/span><\/p>\n

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How education will be smarter, less intrusive, and able to respond to how you feel<\/strong><\/a> — from techcrunch.com by Amar Kumar<\/p>\n

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We are on the verge of a tide of smarter innovation that, if allowed to spread, will turbocharge the learning experience for students. Here are four areas worth watching:<\/p>\n

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  1. Using technology to learn from learners<\/li>\n
  2. Using technology to adapt to how students feel<\/li>\n
  3. Building invisible assessments that are less intrusive<\/li>\n
  4. Keeping pace with technology in the classroom<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Take SimCityEdu: Pollution Challenge \u2013 developed by <\/a>GlassLab Games<\/a> \u2013 where <\/a>students learn how city-planning is impacted by environmental issues. As they play the game, the system is capturing their actions \u2013 such as the sequence of what they do or requests for help \u2013 and interprets patterns in data to assess how well the player understands important concepts. This helps teachers better evaluate how a student solves problems, rather than just the final product of their work.<\/p>\n

    In time, learning games like this should decrease reliance on stop-and-test exams and provide more real-time and actionable information to teachers.<\/p>\n

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    Also related\/see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n