The Hechinger Report – Jill Barshay
“Computerized instruction offers the promise of a technological version of a personal tutor, giving instant feedback and tailoring lessons for each child’s needs. Yet even advocates of educational technology recognize the motivating power of a human teacher to encourage a demoralized student or clear up a point of confusion. To that end, software programmers have designed all sorts of data dashboards for classroom teachers. These are computer screens, akin to a dashboard in a pilot’s cockpit, that visually depict students’ progress as they learn online and flag areas of concern that a teacher can address. But the dashboards can sometimes look like an overwhelming array of color-coded bars, dots, lines and circles, which require a lot of eye movement and clicking to take them all in.” (more)