When I first saw this posted in a
Badass Teachers Instagram I thought it was a joke. It was a little funny, but really too ridiculous to believe. Maybe we will have avatars in a science fiction world, but why here and now when we can train and evaluate teachers working with real students in real schools, the kind of real students they will actually have to teach.
But I turns out it wasn't a joke. The
Educational Testing Service, searching for a way to compete with the Pearson/SCALE
edTPA actually proposes to replace students with avatars in teacher certification exams.
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