EdTech isn't Optional, It's Essential The document discusses how educational technology (EdTech) is essential for addressing key areas in education like large-scale assessments, personalized learning, and improving reading skills. It provides examples of how EdTech can help analyze assessment data to identify student misconceptions, tailor learning paths for individual students, and develop solutions to difficult problems. The author argues that EdTech allows deeper insights into learning gaps and more effective interventions that traditional methods alone cannot provide.

1. EdTech isn’t Optional, It’s Essential
Sridhar Rajagopalan | August 1, 2014
www.ei-india.com

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EdTech isn’t Optional – key areas
1. Large Scale Assessments
2. Personalised Learning
3. Tough Problems like Reading

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EdTech isn’t Optional – key areas
1. Large Scale Assessments
2. Personalised Learning
3. Tough Problems like Reading

5. PROBLEMS
Problem understood
and agreed upon
Problem NOT
understood or
agreed upon
Solution
known
Engineering
Challenge
Solution not
known
Wicked
Problems!
The Problem with the Educational Challenge

6. Assessments FOR
Learning
Used with
educational
research
EdTech
reveals useful
Learning
gaps

7. Imagine Large Scale Assessments without
EdTech

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Using EdTech to gain insights on
student misconceptions

9. Educational Initiatives 9
EdTech is the secret to successful Talent Identification

10. EdTech for Government Level – large scale
assessments
http://www.educationalinitiatives.com/GujaratDiagnostic/GD_StudyGraph_Display.php

11. What is this / What does it represent?
EdTech can help us detect problems AND give us solutions!

12. Why did only 1% of candidates pass the Teacher Test (TET)?
Insights from EdTech
An effective way of testing if a paper
is too long is to check the number of
candidates leaving questions towards
the end unanswered. Here we find no
such increase showing that the paper
was NOT too long. Two other items
which have high unanswered
numbers are also shown. These
suggest low candidate skill levels.

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EdTech isn’t Optional – key areas
1. Large Scale Assessments
2. Personalised Learning
3. Tough Problems like Reading

14. "If you learn how to look at data in the
right way, you can explain riddles that
otherwise might have seemed
impossible. Because there is nothing
like the sheer power of numbers to
scrub away layers of confusion and
contradiction“
- S.D. Levitt (Freakonomics)
"In any system, if the data collection is
complicated and time consuming,
efforts will go into that and not into
what is really important – analysing
that data and getting insights from it“
(source unknown)
Why EdTech for
Learning?

15. Headline
Body text
Sub Headline
Quotes if anyPersonalised
Learning
systems
like Mindspark
allow each
student to
learn with
understanding
at his/her own
pace.
EdTech for Learning

16. What distinguishes an effective programme –
intelligent responses

17. 3. Path Choice
Criteria
4. Decimalians Game5. Flying Photographer6. Number Between Game
Path for L, L1
Personalised
Learning
Different Problems
Different Learning Paths
Different Solutions

18. theme 5
Science of Learning
Clearing
Student
Misconception
s in
Decimals
Based on
research at the
University of
Melbourne by
Kaye Stacey , et
al.
1. Decimal Comparison Test2. Hidden Numbers Game3. Path Choice Criteria
4. Decimalians Game
5. Flying Photographer
6. Number Between Game
Path for L, L1
1. Decimal Comparison Test 2. Hidden Numbers Game
3. Path Choice
Criteria
4. Decimalians Game5. Flying Photographer6. Number Between Game
Path for L, L1

19. theme 5
Science of Learning
Clearing
Student
Misconception
s in
Decimals
Based on
research at the
University of
Melbourne by
Kaye Stacey , et
al.
1. Decimal Comparison Test 2. Hidden Numbers Game
3. Path Choice
Criteria
4. Decimalians Game5. Flying Photographer6. Number Between Game
Path for L, L1

20. The Learning Genome
Understanding Learning and Misconceptions in Fractions

21. Toy ClawReading Time (reading the hour and half past)
Honey bees
Games
Magic Colours
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Remedials
Remedial on SAS Congruence criterion Zero Exponent-1
Finding the roots of the quadratic equation Understanding basic expressions

23. 3D tool
Single solid
Double solid Unit structure
Usage
Standalone tool Intro Questions
Shapes
http://mindspark-
ei.s3.amazonaws.com/Enrichment_Modules/html5/enrichments/VSA_tool/src/index.html?functionality=1&queTxt=54&showQuestion=1&shape=cuboid&showWidget=1&dragHeight=dynamic%7C
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EdTech isn’t Optional – key areas
1. Large Scale Assessments
2. Personalised Learning
3. Tough Problems like Reading

25. Mindspark Centres
for the Poor

26. Technology (incl. Tablet) based
Reading Assessments

27. Individualised Student
Self-assessment

28. Thank You
Educational Initiatives
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Opp. Iskon Temple, SG Highway,
Ahmedabad 380051. Gujarat.
INDIA.
Phone: +91 79 6621 1600.
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