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Living by Numbers He does love his numbers. And they run, they run, they run him…

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How quantity shouts louder than quality

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Drowning by Numbers When numbers get serious, you see their shape everywhere…

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How numbers give EdTech a bad name…

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Neil Selwyn > Academic

Scott Thornbury > Writer

Philip Kerr > Writer

Monash Webpage http://goo.gl/GnxUSJ

A-Z of ELT Blog http://goo.gl/HCdZ3i

Adaptive Learning Blog http://goo.gl/4ZC4Jp

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Neil Selwyn Interviewed by Philip Kerr as part of a joint event organised by the IATEFL LTSIG and GISIG. In the full interview Philip and Neil talk about EdTech, Sugata Mitra and much more.

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In contrast to the generally learner-centred ‘educational technology community’ is a set of powerful for-profit and/or conservative interests also involved in the promotion and advancement of the digital re-arrangement of education. Picciano and Spring (2013) refer to these interests as the ‘education-industrial complex’

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Philip Kerr Teacher trainer, lecturer and materials writer. Books include Inside Out and Straightforward (Macmillan), and Translation and OwnLanguage Activities (CUP)

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❞ The drive towards adaptive learning is being fuelled

less by individual learners or teachers than it is by commercial interests, large educational institutions and even larger agencies, including national governments. How one feels about adaptive learning is likely to be shaped by one’s beliefs about how education should be managed.

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Scott Thornbury Teacher and teacher educator, with over 30 years’ experience in ELT, and an MA from the University of Reading. Currently Curriculum Coordinator of the MA TESOL program at The New School in New York.

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The question then is, surely, what method of predicting failure (or of drop-out) is the most reliable, i.e. what method eliminates the most error? And/or which method can be most easily, quickly, cost-effectively improved? The data-driven method, or the (traditional) method, of teachers regularly making predictions (and communicating them to their students), based on observation of the students’ performance and/or formative tests?

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Philip Kerr

Pit Corder

Scott Thornbury

Neil Postman

Hugh Dellar

Nicholas Carr

Neil Selwyn

Diane Ravitch

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John Hattie Professor of Education and Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is author of Visible Learning, and Visible Learning for Teachers.


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We should focus on the greatest source of variance that can make the difference – the teacher. We need to ensure that this greatest influence is optimised to have powerful and sensationally positive effects, but they must be exceptional effects. We need to direct attention at higher quality teaching…

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Visible Learning was based on more than 800 meta-analyses of 50,000 research articles, about 150,000 effect sizes, and about 240 million students. A further 100+ meta-analyses completed since Visible Learning was first published have subsequently been added.



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Much of the data on technology was gathered starting in 1987 (preWindows, pre-internet...). The earliest meta-analysis cited goes back to 1977, 25 are pre-1990 and the next 25 pre-2000 (more than half of the 114 total) Indeed, in the latest Visible Learning for Teachers, neither ‘computer’, nor ‘technology’ feature in the index at the back of the book….



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John Hattie admits that half of the Statistics in Visible Learning are wrong (…) Hattie reluctantly acknowledges that the CLE has in fact been calculated incorrectly throughout the book… “People who don’t know that Probability can’t be negative, shouldn’t write books on Statistics.”



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Hattie declares that the use of computers (sic!) is most effective: with a diversity of teaching strategies after teacher training in appropriate use when there are multiple opportunities for learning when the student is in "control" of learning when peer learning is optimised when feedback is optimised



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Classroom Discussion: Nicky Hockly

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Formative Feedback: Russell Stannard

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Joy Egbert

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