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Greg Toppo

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Senior Writer, @The74; Co-author, RUNNING WITH ROBOTS: The American High School’s 3rd Century @running_robots; author of THE GAME BELIEVES IN YOU @gamebelieves

Maryland, USA Katılım Ağustos 2008
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Greg Toppo@gtoppo·
It’s got history. It’s got time travel. It’s got a feisty Ernest Hemingway chatbot. It’s RUNNING WITH ROBOTS: THE AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL’S THIRD CENTURY, out today from @mitpress. @Running_Robots runningwithrobots.com
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Karen Vaites
Karen Vaites@karenvaites·
Which part seems simple? The Baltimore regulation of screen time or my “get a curriculum that doesn’t require screens” point? Adopting quality curriculum into a system that didn’t use it before is never, ever simple. So there’s that. I also don’t think the issue stops at the curriculum selection door. We also have to deal with the shift to digital assessments: in schools, by states. And avoid throwing out babies (ex remote tutoring) with bath water.
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Karen Vaites@karenvaites·
Paging educators 🚩🚩🚩 This is the second time in 2 weeks that @JonHaidt has called to get Ed Tech out of classrooms by September: "I hope that many elementary schools will remove devices by Sept., or create an analog path for parents who want that. Let's see if kids do better with books and paper" Haidt drove the cell phone ban legislation. What are the odds his words carry in a similar fashion? Are we doing enough to signal this shift to districts? 1/2
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Still more evidence that EdTech harmed American education: Across states, the year that the state imposed mandates requiring computers/tablets, that's the year that test scores stopped rising and in most cases started falling. From Jared Cooney Horvath thedigitaldelusion.substack.com/p/when-correla…

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Karen Vaites
Karen Vaites@karenvaites·
Recently, Baltimore City superintendent @SonjaSantelises announced a limit on screen time in K-2. It must be said: Baltimore City will have an easier time with this because it has a curriculum (Wit & Wisdom) that isn't designed to be used digitally. That matters! thebanner.com/education/earl…
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Greg Toppo@gtoppo·
These kids and their devices ...
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"If you think of a tutor bot as extracting statistical patterns of language out of a corpus, we've got kind of the wrong corpus for the patterns of language that we want to emerge." 2/2 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how… @bjfr
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Greg Toppo@gtoppo·
.@MIT's Justin Reich on the essential problem of LLM tutor bots: "If you're using LLMs, they're trained on the web, and most of the text on the web is about answering questions. But actually what tutors do is they question answers. They provoke thinking. ... 1/2
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.@MIT's Justin Reich on practical consequences of generative #AI: "I think we're gonna find that there are millions and millions fewer minutes of homework being done at all secondary grade levels this year, and not every one of those assignments in the past was perfect ... 1/2
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Greg Toppo@gtoppo·
Exclusive: New Google Partnership a ‘Sizable Investment’ in AI for Teachers - my latest for @The74 (link in first comment)
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My latest for @the74 ... Exclusive: Parents Favor Free Tutoring, Summer Camp, Open Enrollment … Annual Testing? Not So Much Link in 1st comment.
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