Is one student smarter than another because the first can analyze literature in 30 minutes while the other takes 35?
Google will make your students smarter, but it won't make your students smart.
Cao et al. [21] analyzed behavioral data from the digital records of nearly 19,000 students' smart cards, such as entering and leaving the library, having a meal in the cafeteria, or taking a shower in the dormitory.
In a word, it seeks to make students smarter.
Are the tests administered by schools making students smarter and more educated, or just making us think we know how to evaluate education?
A stem curriculum is predicated on the notion that the best teaching is interdisciplinary, because similar patterns of thinking underlie many subjects and integrating them makes students smarter.
This year, Alfie Kohn, the well-known education scholar who argues that homework does not make students smarter, visited Packer, adding fuel to a debate the school was having about students' workload.
The Teacher's Union might have a fit if software like Knewton's ever threatens their jobs, but education is so broken in this country that anything that make students smarter should be embraced with open arms.
"He was a very popular student, very smart, very capable," Linsey Gannon, the school's assistant principal, told the newspaper.
They heard about another student, Kristin Smart, who disappeared from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo in 1996.
Teacher focused mastery learning should give away to student focused smart learning.
