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ALEKS starts everyone at the same point. But from the moment students begin to answer the practice questions that it automatically generates for them, ALEKS’ machine-learning algorithms are analyzing their responses to figure out which concepts they understand and which they don’t
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program may prompt them to read some background materials
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Whelan, the instructor, does not lecture. What would be the point, when no two students are studying the same thing
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textbook publishers
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begun to reinvent themselves as educational technology companies
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he software isn’t meant to replace teachers, they insist. Rather, it’s meant to free them to focus on the sort of high-level, conceptual instruction that only a human can provide.
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extbook of the 21st century can’t just be a multimedia reference source
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more active role in the educational process
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has to be interactive, comprehensive, and maybe even intelligent
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automating things they’d otherwise do themselves
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Revenues from McGraw-Hill Education’s digital products jumped by 24 percent in 2014, and they now account for close to a third of its $2 billion in annual revenue.
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We don’t want students to go too long without having to do something with the information they’re acquiring.” The mantra is: “Read a little, do a little.”
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Do it right, and you’ll be rewarded with significant gains.
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he’s seen (and conducted) plenty of studies in which the use of adaptive software led to higher test scores.
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In a class that revolves around computers and software, you might think that the software would do most of the teaching. On the contrary, the students in Whelan’s class seem to do most of their actual learning—in the sense of acquiring new concepts—during their brief bursts of personal interaction with their human tutors.
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The role of the machine-learning software, in this view, is to automate all the aspects of the learning experience that can be automated, liberating the teacher to focus on what can’t.
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At Westchester Community College, the pass rate for developmental pre-algebra is just 40 percent. But in computer-assisted sections of the same course, including Whelan’s, the average pass rate is 52 percent.
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ALEKS is designed only to work for math, chemistry, and business classes.
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For everything else, the company offers LearnSmart,
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Knewton’s platform in particular boasts the ability to add an “adaptive layer” to just about any type of educational content
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Knewton cannot work when there’s no right answer.”
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SmartBook is a kind of interactive e-book in which the lessons change in response to the student’s answers to pop quizzes along the way
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Now the software does that for her.
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“I know how much time they’ve spent on each problem, and I know which ones they’re getting wrong,
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ut it makes it all too easy to forget that the test was meant only as a proxy for broader pedagogical goals: not just the acquisition of skills and retention of knowledge, but the ability to think creatively, work collaboratively, and apply those skills and that knowledge to new situations
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“Adaptive technologies presume that knowledge can be modularized and sequenced,” says Watters, the education writer. “This isn’t about the construction of knowledge. It’s still hierarchical, top-down, goal-driven.”
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it won’t teach them the underlying skills that they’ll need to tackle complex, real-world problems
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The implication is that adaptive software might prove effective at training children to pass standardized tests.
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they are good at assessing things that we no longer need humans to do anymore.
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who owned all the data that flowed from students’ use of the software—
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adaptive software could some day be smart enough to make inferences about students’ conceptual understanding
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By tracking everything they read, every problem they solve, every concept they master, Knewton could compile a “psychometric profile”
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software responds to each step a student takes toward a solution, as opposed to “problem-level adaptation,”
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not only what she learned but how readily she learned it, and at what sorts of problem-solving she struggled and exceled.
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where the software analyzes only the student’s final answer.
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asking a student to show his work on his way to solving a problem
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Where critics are likely to grow queasy is at the point where the technology begins to usurp or substitute for the types of teaching and learning that can’t be measured in right or wrong answers.
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Accurately diagnosing a student’s misconceptions is a harder conundrum than you might thin
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When students get question wrong in one of McGraw-Hill Education’s interactive textbooks, the textbook can direct them to a text, graphical, or video explanation that attempts to better explain the concept in question
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“There are 125 sheep and five dogs in a flock. How old is the shepherd?”
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But that requires the textbook authors to anticipate the common mistakes or misunderstandings that might have led students to the wrong answer
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authors—despite being experts in their field—were amazingly bad at predicting where students’ misconceptions would lie
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It would be a mistake, in criticizing today’s educational technology, to romanticize the status quo.
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ASU saw an 18 percent increase in pass rates and a 47 percent decrease in withdrawals from the math courses that used Knewton’s adaptive tools.
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is up to the artificially intelligent software that’s guiding them through the material and assessing their performance at every turn.
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When Whelan’s online dashboard tells her that several are struggling with the same concept, she’ll assemble those students and work through some problems as a small group. It’s teaching as triage.
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The result is a classroom experience starkly different from the model that has dominated American education for the past 100 years
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Rather, it’s meant to free them to focus on the sort of high-level, conceptual instruction that only a human can provide.
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The OECD report concluded that “adding 21st-century technologies to 20th-century teaching practices will just dilute the effectiveness of teachin
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abbyfauberThe result is a classroom experience starkly different from the model that has dominated American education for the past 100 years.
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rachael654Technology is reshaping the whole American education system.
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“This isn’t about the construction of knowledge. It’s still hierarchical, top-down, goal-driven.”
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sara1011The result is a classroom experience starkly different from the model that has dominated American education for the past 100 years.
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At first glance, each student appears to be at a different point in the course. And that’s true, in one sense. But it’s more accurate to say that the course is literally different for each student.
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ALEKS starts everyone at the same point. But from the moment students begin to answer the practice questions that it automatically generates for them, ALEKS’ machine-learning algorithms are analyzing their responses to figure out which concepts they understand and which they don’t.
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The result is a classroom experience starkly different from the model that has dominated American education for the past 100 years. In a conventional classroom, an instructor stands behind a lectern or in front of a whiteboard and says the same thing at the same time to a roomful of very different individuals. Some have no idea what she’s talking about. Others, knowing the material cold, are bored. In the middle are a handful who are at just the right point in their progress for the lecture to strike them as both comprehensible and interesting. When the bell rings, the teacher sends them all home to read the same chapter of the same textbook.
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esther107"No More Pencils, No More Books
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Anne ShilloloAdaptive learning software is replacing textbooks and upending American education. Should we welcome it? https://t.co/yHi2pFQX67 #edtechbc
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yves-armel martin"While the thinkers are arguing, textbook publishers are acting."
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vucjipastirEighteen students file into a brightly lit classroom. Arrayed around its perimeter are 18 computers. The students take their seats, log in to their machine
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rowe_boat515Eighteen students file into a brightly lit classroom. Arrayed around its perimeter are 18 computers. The students take their seats, log in to their machine
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In the context of the traditional classroom, Internet-connected devices risk distracting from the learning process more than they aid it.
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Michaela WellmanThis article was pretty straight forward. It talked a lot about Aleks and programs similar to Aleks. I think that it is a good idea to have programs like this in your classroom and for teachers to implement them. It starts each student off at the same point but once they answer more and more questions, they each are learning basically the same but at different speeds. Some students will be behind in certain areas and then the teacher can work with those students a little extra in whatever subject matter they're not understanding. I like this because i remember especially in middle school math that the teacher would go to the front of the room and teach but i would already understand what we were doing so it was boring to me and almost time wasting.
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The LACOLEighteen students file into a brightly lit classroom. Arrayed around its perimeter are 18 computers. The students take their seats, log in to their machine
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Almost everyone who thinks seriously about education agrees that this paradigm—sometimes derided as “sage on a stage”—is flawed. They just can’t agree on what should replace it. Flipped classrooms? Massive open online courses? Hands-on, project-based learning?
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A famous 2003 Cornell University study found that students who were allowed to use their laptops during class recalled far less of the material than those who were denied access to computers.
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More broadly, a 40-country Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development study recently found that the students who reported spending the most time on computers, both in class and at home, performed worse than their peers on a pair of standardized tests.
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nd countries that have invested heavily in classroom technology have seen “no noticeable improvement” in students’ test scores. The OECD report concluded that “adding 21st-century technologies to 20th-century teaching practices will just dilute the effectiveness of teaching.”
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they don’t. A few wrong answers to a given type of question, and the program may prompt them to read some bac
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previous job as chief information and technology officer at Harvard Business School.
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Jorge BarbaArtificially intelligent software is replacing the textbook—and reshaping American education.
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the instructor, does not lecture
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the instructor, does not lecture. What would be the point, when no two students are studying the same thing? Instead, she serves as a sort of roving tutor, moving from one student to the next as they call on her for help.
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online dashboard tells her that several are struggling with the same concept, she’ll assemble those students and work through some problems as a small group. It’s teaching as triage.
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A famous 2003 Cornell University study found that students who were allowed to use their laptops during class recalled far less of the material than those who were denied access to computers. More broadly, a 40-country Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development study recently found that the students who reported spending the most time on computers, both in class and at home, performed worse than their peers on a pair of standardized tests.
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online lectures may be better viewed as an alternative to the textbook than as a replacement for the entire classroom.
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added pressure to differentiate their pricey offerings from the perfectly serviceable free videos and course materials available on sites like Coursera and Khan Academy
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21st century can’t just be a multimedia reference source. It has to take a more active role in the educational process. It has to be interactive, comprehensive, and maybe even intelligent. It has to make students’ and teachers’ lives easier by automating things they’d otherwise do themselves. The smarter it gets, the more aspects of the educational experience it can automate—and the more incentive schools and teachers will have to adopt it.
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Joe SabadoArtificially intelligent software is replacing the textbook—and reshaping American education. https://t.co/NfE38VbOme #EdChat #EdTechChat
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beccatoddlong-ish intriguing article comparing studies re: actual learning effectiveness or lack thereof of adaptive computer technology
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Ian O'ByrneThe Textbook Is Dying. Meet the Artificially Intelligent Software That’s Replacing It. https://t.co/Q6UXFTLxja https://t.co/EDLHrLwBb0
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Amanda Bischoffadaptive
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As the students work, the software logs everything from which questions they get right and wrong to the amount of time they spend on each one. When Whelan’s online dashboard tells her that several are struggling with the same concept, she’ll assemble those students and work through some problems as a small group. It’s teaching as triage.
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Almost everyone who thinks seriously about education agrees that this paradigm—sometimes derided as “sage on a stage”—is flawed. They just can’t agree on what should replace it. Flipped classrooms? Massive open online courses? Hands-on, project-based learning?
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The software isn’t meant to replace teachers, they insist. Rather, it’s meant to free them to focus on the sort of high-level, conceptual instruction that only a human can provide.
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The technology you’ll find in most classrooms today (textbooks, desks, pencils, pens) closely resembles what you would have found there a century ago. Maybe the blackboards have become whiteboards or projection screens. But the underlying structure has persisted since the days of Horace Mann.
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adding 21st-century technologies to 20th-century teaching practices will just dilute the effectiveness of teaching.
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a much-hyped movement to “disrupt” higher education by offering college classes online for free has begun to fizzle. MOOCs were touted in TED talks and Wired cover stories as a disruptive force that would throw open the gates to an Ivy League–quality instruction to anyone with an Internet connection.
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At this point, online lectures may be better viewed as an alternative to the textbook than as a replacement for the entire classroom.
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To retain its value, Levin says, the textbook of the 21st century can’t just be a multimedia reference source. It has to take a more active role in the educational process. It has to be interactive, comprehensive, and maybe even intelligent.
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But ALEKS’ creators weren’t content to cloister their work in the ivory tower. They formed a private company in 1996, and McGraw-Hill Education bought it in 2013. Now the former textbook giant and its investors are banking on ALEKS to become a profit machine as well as a teaching tool.
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These established players are being pushed by, and partnering with, Silicon Valley–backed ed-tech startups such as Knewton, whose adaptive learning platform is one of ALEKS’ top rivals.
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these days the real action is at its research and development hub in Boston’s Innovation District, where the software developers who sit plugging away at machine-learning algorithms could be mistaken for employees of an early stage tech startup.
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koroghcm usVery long article about adaptive instruction and its possible future in education. Gives background on how textbook companies are moving in this direction. Has anecdotes. Thinks about the implications long-term for people and for education.
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teaching as triage
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pre-algebra
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ALEKS
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Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Space
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Tyler AmidonIn the classroom of the future, the textbook reads *you*. https://t.co/02DltJzAht pic.twitter.com/iFoeJtXVET
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