BYOT Network

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

This post is part of a series about the Building Blocks for Personalized Learning. By engaging in opportunities to make connections beyond the classroom to real-world learning activities and situations, students are better able to experience personalized learning.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 10, 2016

Cross-posted from the Digital Education blog. Personalized learning pioneer Summit Public Schools is expanding its network to include 100 new schools, CEO Dianne Tavenner announced via a Facebook post today. In 2015-16, Truesdell was one of 19 Basecamp schools around the country. A complete list is available here.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 2, 2019

It occurs to me that so many of my best ideas come from the blogs of others. As often as not, those blogs live outside of the school library world. In no particular order, here’s a very personal selection of blogs/bloggers I couldn’t live without. Cult of Pedagogy is far more than a blog.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Libraries can personalize learning for students through the use of online tools. We really want them to be thoughtful about how they’re going to use their time in the space and choose a space that suits their learning needs at that moment,” said Michelle. Last, personalized learning can be done through making.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 6, 2018

In our third and final blog in our series on the Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) we’ll explore successes in the elementary school context. Read our previous blog posts on Assessments and Personalization for the bigger picture. Personalized learning. Makerspaces.

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Education Elements

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The Nation’s Report Card revealed in October 2015 that overall U.S. math scores declined for the first time in 25 years, signaling a need for change within the learning process.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 31, 2015

I want to take a break from my Over 70 STEM Resource Series to have a conversation on Personalized Learning and its relationship to the Walls of education. Please take a moment to read and reflect on my ideas of what Personalized Learning might be and realize that there may be other translations. Register Here.

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Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

FEBRUARY 28, 2015

The Canadian Education Association 's 2015 Ken Spencer Award has awarded Inquiry Hub Secondary School with first place. Being new and small, we are still developing our community, learning, and adjusting as we go. The 2015 Winners of the CEA Ken Spencer Awardfor Innovation in Teaching and Learning.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 18, 2015

At ISTE 2015, Common Sense Education will provide a sneak preview of the latest version of Graphite, designed to help educators learn fundamental edtech teaching skills. Learn more here about their Marriott Lightning Sessions and raffle and follow @commonsenseedu & @graphite on Twitter. Connect with CDW*G during ISTE 2015.

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Reading By Example

DECEMBER 5, 2015

I had the privilege of presenting at the Wisconsin Technology Initiative on December 5, 2015. My topic was how to get started in building one’s personal learning network. There were positives, but it seemed like schoolwide professional learning wasn’t enough for the teachers attending.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 28, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter This podcast with Jennifer Seravallo is dedicated to helping reading teachers improve their teaching methods by providing practical tips and in-depth insights into differentiated reading strategies. Her newest books are THE READING STRATEGIES BOOK 2.0

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2016

30+ ideas to improve learning with awesome classroom design From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. A well-designed classroom boosts student learning by as much as 16% (Barrett, Zhang, Davies, & Barrett 2015), but overdecorating is a distraction. Blog Posts. Barrett, P.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 14, 2015

July 16-20, 2015 (Live and Video Recordings Available). Friday, July 17, 2015. 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Beth Hammett – The Future of Education: Adaptive Learning in the 21st Century Classroom. 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Royan Lee – Sketchnoting Like It’s 2015. Friday, July 17, 2015. Who is speaking?

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 29, 2017

Although low-skilled adults have minimal access to educational opportunities, I outlined in my 2015 blog post some ways in which technology has the potential to provide critical access to quality, personalized learning experiences for this underserved population.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

AUGUST 17, 2015

Our 3rd-5th graders all have their own personal learning device assigned to them at the beginning of the year. I want students to leave our library with their personal learning device feeling like they are digital leaders and changemakers. — Andy Plemmons (@plemmonsa) August 11, 2015. I also used this video.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 4, 2015

There are a lot of folks on the vendor floor at national conferences who will sell you products that supposedly personalize learning, and much of the buzz around something like Khan Academy is that it personalizes the learning for kids. That’s the model of personalization we want to see schools move toward.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The second in our New Generation Learning series focuses on personalization. Where last time we drew attention to schools that had made innovative leaps in assessment protocols, today we look at schools that are taking the design of personalized learning pathways seriously.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The second in our New Generation Learning series focuses on personalization. Where last time we drew attention to schools that had made innovative leaps in assessment protocols, today we look at schools that are taking the design of personalized learning pathways seriously.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 30, 2016

Assistant Professor at the Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education at Michigan State University) was kind enough to provide me a review copy and permission to blog about the findings. Learning in one-to-one laptop environments: A meta-analysis and research synthesis. Warschauer, M.,

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

because teaching is no longer an isolated profession; it’s a dynamic and interconnected field requiring teachers to work collaboratively and build expansive professional and personal learning networks. 57, cited in Vaughn, 2015, p. 2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ). Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. Madda et al.,

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Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

MARCH 4, 2019

Here are a few more resources to help understand that journey the school has been on, already shared on my blog: Creating the time and space for self-directed, personalized, inquiry learning. The 2015 CEA Ken Spencer Award goes to Inquiry Hub. Learning and Failure. Relevance Amplifies Learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Department of Education, created a blog series sharing insights from schools with a particular focus on: Defining personalized learning. Design considerations of the next generation of personalized learning systems. Throughout this blog series, short videos from the U.S. personalized learning are here.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2019

AltSchool, a developer of personalized learning software that once operated a chain of “microschools,” is getting a major makeover. This morning, the San Francisco-based company announced a series of “sweeping changes” that includes a new name—Altitude Learning—and new leadership.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Kimberly Sheppard is a personalized learning coach for Henry County Schools in Georgia. In that capacity, she is participating—along with eighty or so of her Henry County colleagues—in the Assessment for Learning micro-credential project , led by the Center for Collaborative Education (CCE).

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Tom Murray

APRIL 22, 2016

** This blog was originally posted at futureready.org/netp. In December of 2015, on the same day that President Obama signed the “Every Student Succeeds Act” (ESSA), the U.S. Department of Education released the 2016 National Education Technology Plan (NETP).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 27, 2015

Summer PD 2015 just ended. They shared with colleagues on discussion boards, blogs, Tweets. Participants worked together as a Personal Learning Network to understand. Check out these class blogs: Mrs. Maddox’s Classroom. D’Amato’s Learning Path. Failed and tried again. Asked questions.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

This article originally appeared on the Clayton Christensen Institute’s blog and is reposted here with permission.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 17, 2015

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Here are some pictures my students took at the Global Education and Skills Forum in Dubai in March 2015. Step 2: Build Your Personal Learning Network (PLN). Then, connect yourself to other educators by building your own personal PLN.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

This hands-on, authentic process re-establishes learners as active contributors of their learning environment by providing true agency through the connection of interest with impact. With very little first-hand experience with personalized learning, many teachers and education administrators have difficulty fathoming its power.

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The Principal of Change

JULY 2, 2019

These points resonate I wanted to post them in this blog not only to share with others but for my future reference. Which is never. People will cause you problems — but they’re also the biggest source of happiness. Five-to-one is plenty good. Based on this, here is something I am writing for myself. “Time is short.

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The Innovative Educator

JANUARY 23, 2016

After than are 5 tips from digital influencers on how to make a great education blog. Rounding out the top is a post remembering the young Joe Bower who we lost too soon and someone from whom I personally learned much. Dec 30, 2015, 3632 7 Benefits to Ditching The Paper at Meetings + Eve.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

FY 2015 $0. Obama administration FY 2015 request for a proposed replacement educational technology program (see page 5) : “ $200 million for a new ConnectEDucators initiative that would help educators transition to using technology and data to personalize learning and improve CCR [college- and career-ready] instruction and assessment.

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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 16, 2015

June 19, 2015 by Chopstick Sensei from United States I don’t know how Jeff makes the time for this empire of his, but he’s putting together amazing information to help teachers out. A wealth of knowledge June 15, 2015 by jpdalton from United States I got the honor of hearing this gentleman speak in person and he knocked my socks off!

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ExcelinEd

AUGUST 4, 2020

Robin Lake and Bree Dusseault observed that only 16 of the 106 districts in their database are “still committed to opening the school year with in-person learning.” Indiana passed a law in 2014 , Oklahoma in 2015 , and Texas in 2017. As the Center on Reinventing Public Education noted last week, that’s changed.

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Doug Levin

JULY 5, 2015

For the month of June 2015 , for instance, I clipped a total of 265 stories (which – according to bundlr – were uniquely viewed over 16,000 times, equating to about 60 unique views a clip on average). All kudos to the edtech PR flacks who get their stories covered. On any given day, I may find 10-15 articles to clip.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University recently scaled access to professional learning content for educators by taking advantage of the Massive Open Online Courses for Educators (MOOC-Eds) format. There are people literally from the other side of the world in our MOOC-Eds. Enter micro-credentials.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) has prioritized a culture of technology-enriched student learning through its Students and Teachers Advancing Tomorrow Initiative (S.T.A.T.). is to transform BCPS into a student-centered, personalized learning environment. The central mission of S.T.A.T.

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