Use student data to personalize learning: The concept isn’t new. Educators have been doing it as long as they’ve been in the classroom. The number of times children raise their hands in class is data; the percentage of students who missed the same question on a test is data.
Where technology now plays a role is in scaling the use of data.
Educational technology tools are gathering immense amounts of student data. “Everything is housed in the school Google and Microsoft OneDrive accounts,” said Brittney Reeves, assistant principal at Gulf Shores Middle School, in her Future of Education…