In our latest episode, host Brian LeTendre talks with MIND's Lead Mathematician Brandon Smith about some common misconceptions regarding personalized learning. Brandon also gives some guidance on what questions to be asking when designing or implementing a personalized learning model.

Additional Resources:

High-Performing District Looks for New Ways to Personalize Learning
http://www.stmath.com/profiles/marlboro-personalized-learning

What the Perception-Action Cycle Tells Us About How the Brain Learns
http://blog.mindresearch.org/blog/perception-action-cycle

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In our inaugural episode, host Brian LeTendre sits down with MIND's Chief Data Science Officer Andrew Coulson to talk about edtech evaluation. In the discussion, Andrew discusses the subject of his recent blog post on the need for a paradigm shift in edtech evaluation, and why multiple field studies are more valid than single gold standard experiments when gauging program impact.

You can read Andrew's full blog post and download the evaluation rubric here:

http://blog.mindresearch.org/blog/edtech-evaluation-rubric


Additional Resources:

Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Information and Standards
https://www.evidenceforessa.org/
https://www.evidenceforessa.org/programs/math/elementary

Ed Tech Industry Network: Guidelines for Conducting and Reporting EdTech Impact Research in U.S. K-12 Schools
https://www.empiricaleducation.com/pdfs/guidelines.pdf


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