We Know More than We Can Tell
Jody Asbell-Clark |
TEDxBeaconStreet
• November 2017
To unleash the potential of all learners, we need to start looking at what people can do, not just what they can say. "Many of The cognitive differences of neurodiverse students (learners with Autism, ADD, Dyslexia and other cognitive functions that make school difficult) may also empower them with creativity, resilience, and innovative approaches to problem-solving.
-Our education system struggles to measure and support these different ways of thinking, denying diverse learners their optimal learning opportunities and robbing Our future workforce of The talent and ingenuity that diverse learners offer.
-digital environments—including games, augmented, virtual and mixed reality—offer new ways to measure learners’ implicit knowledge, not relying on a test. games have The “stickiness” that motivate diverse learners to drill deeper, pursue new challenges, and persist to solve problems.
-digital environments generate data logs and educational data mining models---algorithms that identify common patterns of behavior to see where each learner struggles and succeeds in a digital experience--- can inform teachers and designers How to customize learning experience for each and every learner."