Howard Dvorsky

For decades, American education has been constrained by a model of testing that is far better at ranking students than at helping them learn. We measure, sort, and certify, yet often fail to provide the meaningful insight that could spark curiosity or guide a teacher’s next move. This paradigm of one-size-fits-all testing is simply inadequate for guiding improvement or fostering deeper understandi...[Read More]

Khan Academy has reimagined its Khan Academy Districts platform, the paid partnership program that offers strategic implementation tools, data, and services for optimizing the use of Khan Academy district-wide.

Like a lot of young children, five-year-old Geo is a spinning top. Bright and mischievous, his arc through the world corresponds to a pattern of one, something his mother, Rosi Lara, sees clearly. So when Geo neared school-age, his mom struggled to find any place where she felt confident he would thrive. Ultimately, that search led her to enroll Geo in a fledgling new school, the Lab School of Mem...[Read More]

Enterprise cloud teams face barriers to scaling and resilience as AI-driven workloads surge, according to a new report from ControlMonkey.

So what does quality have to do with learning? Quite a bit, it turns out. And it starts out with helping students understand what it means. Source

Explore how Brooklyn Friends School integrates AI through Quaker values, championing educational equity and values-based learning. The post Brooklyn Friends School’s Approach to AI and the Future of Learning first appeared on EdTechReview.

Critical reading is reading with the purpose of critical examination of the text and its implicit and explicit themes and ideas. Source

We can address a deficit of critical thinking by embedding into the architecture of education. This can be accomplished in any number of ways. Source

A recent global study by IDC and SAS found that while the adoption of artificial intelligence continues to expand rapidly across industries, a misalignment between perceived trust in AI systems and their actual trustworthiness is limiting business returns.

“Too often, people who are poor are told what they should do,” says Dr. Denise Reading, President and CEO of Future Plans. ”At Future Plans we ask ‘What do you want to do?  What do you think would work?’  We believe they know best, and it is our job to listen and then to provide consistent support.  By doing this, we have seen amazing individual and community transformations.  At the end of the da...[Read More]

We spent a few uncharacteristically warm days in Boston—the land of brick and cobblestone, bike lanes and greenways, rowers and runners—hosting our third New Pathways convening alongside American Student Assistance (ASA). These events are regional showcases of what’s possible in intentional and reciprocal learning ecosystems that connect learners to employers and everything in between. Educators, ...[Read More]

Piaget’s stages of cognitive development include the sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational stage. Source