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Can Competency-Based Education Demonstrate Mastery Across a Lifetime? #DLNchat

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Not everyone in the #DLNchat community was as enthusiastic about the potential of adaptive learning for CBE. Jeff Grann said, “Adaptive may help tweak, but it’s important to start with building high quality CBE learning experiences that prioritize gains in student learning.” Grann didn’t think so.

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What Education Technology Could Look Like Over the Next Five Years

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The NMC Horizon report highlights four principles of collaborative learning: “placing the learner at the center, emphasizing interaction and doing, working in groups, and developing solutions to real-world problems.” Access to mobile technology especially has helped students feel comfortable in the role of digital creator.

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COVID-19 Is Accelerating the Digital Blending of Working and Learning

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And because of social distancing, we find ourselves living in world that is even more digital–and the evidence of that shift is all around us. Restaurants have rapidly shifted to online and mobile ordering, and are speeding up the deployment of digital kiosks that replace human workers.

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WHAT’S NEW

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CHALK AND WIRE MYMANTL ( www.mymantl.com ) Chalk & Wire announced that its learning recognition network, MyMantl, is now fully available for students, educators, employees and employers. The Omni Power Station recharges up to 10 Omni 20s at once and allows students to rent and return an Omni 20 using a self-service mobile app.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In 2018, Mozilla said it would retire Backpack, its platform for sharing and displaying badges, and would help users move their badges to Badgr, software developed by the tech company Concentric Sky. Indeed, young people prefer learning from YouTube than from textbooks — according, ironically, to Pearson.

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