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Techie becomes Teacher

Techie becomes Teacher

Brett SomersMIT-Stanford VLABEdTech Team [email protected]: @somers_brett

1. Common Core Tracking Tools

2. Real-time adaptive learning tools

3. Student individual/group productivity

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5. High and sustained student engagement

6. Common Core Alignment

K-12 Teachers Need

Need Common Core Tracking Tools

Teacher Challenge:

Too many students

To much data

No time to track progress

Developer Opportunity:

Collect data from all computing actions

send this data to a central repository

report this data to a teacher dashboard

Need Common Core Tracking Tools

Need Real-Time Adaptive Learning Tools

Teacher Challenge:

Not 35 of Mr. Somers

Santa size bag of realia

10 seconds to chaos

Developer Opportunity:

Use CC tracking data to reteach

Students work at their pace (home ext.)

New trust in Games that teach Curriculum

Need Real-Time Adaptive Learning Tools

Need Student Indiv/Group Productivity

Teacher Challenge:

Terrible two’s all over again

Bully = Cool : Smart= tool

Leader without a team

Developer Opportunity:

Relevant Virtual with a “real” feel

Collaborative with clear team roles

Rebrand smart as cool, bully the fool

Need Student Indiv/Group Productivity

Teacher back to Techie

To disrupt Ed

Teacher back to Techie

To disrupt Ed

... In a good way that is. No bullies allowed. Brett Somers

MIT-Stanford VLABEdTech Team [email protected]: @somers_brett