E-Learning
Accused of Cheating by an Algorithm, and a Professor She Had Never Met
Dr. Orridge did not respond to requests for comment for this article. A spokeswoman from Broward College said she could not discuss the case because of student privacy laws. In an email, she said faculty “exercise their best judgment” about what they see in Honorlock reports. She said a first warning for dishonesty would appear […]
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My College Students Are Not OK
After his classes went mostly in-person, he said, he had to pull back on his extracurriculars, and his grades suffered. The best approach, in his view, would be to “let people choose” how to take their classes, “because we now have the infrastructure in place that we can record lectures and have in-person ones for […]
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India Pandemic School Closings Imperil ‘Demographic Dividend’
NEW DELHI — Some children have forgotten the alphabet or what their classrooms look like. Others have dropped out of school entirely, scrounging for work and unlikely to ever resume their studies. For years, India has been counting on its vast pool of young people as a wellspring of future growth, a “demographic dividend,” as […]
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Schools Are Closing Classrooms on Fridays. Parents Are Furious.
But, she said, teaching during the pandemic has been awful. “You have to think about not just trying to teach, but to stay safe as well,” she said, adding, “everything just can’t fall on the plate of a teacher.” Research shows that disruptions during the pandemic led to students falling behind in math and reading, […]
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The Best Tech Gifts That Aren’t Gadgets
My favorite holiday tech gift doesn’t require batteries or software updates. It’s not even a gadget, though it was made with technology. Can you guess what it is? A few years ago, my wife experimented with her iPad and a digital stylus to make digital illustrations. Using Procreate, a drawing app, she loaded a photo […]
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