Digital Promise

MAY 31, 2016

To support teachers in developing the necessary skills and knowledge to facilitate optimal learning experiences under this new initiative, HISD and the University of San Diego (USD) teamed up with Digital Promise to pilot a competency-based professional learning model supported by micro-credentials.

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The PL2C Blog

JANUARY 22, 2018

Moving beyond passive sit-and-listen experiences, micro-credentials create active learning experiences as educators apply their learning to their classroom. However, we should consider the consequences of the competencies themselves for personalizing learning.

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More Verbs

JULY 8, 2015

As we think about our teachers becoming highly skilled at using technology in the classroom, we could certainly generate a very long list of skills, approaches, tools, apps, strategies, and other competences we’d like them to get good at. These become our 12 buckets that would make up our professional learning curriculum for teachers.

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techlearning

AUGUST 5, 2019

As  the Educational Technology Coach and a District Personalized Learning Coach for Verona Area High School, in Verona, Wisconsin, a key part of my role is supporting my colleagues as they learn to integrate technology into the classroom.  In

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edWeb.net

APRIL 6, 2021

Now, the mission is to figure out what data to track and how to use it. One key piece of information is how students are using educational technology, such as when do they access their devices, what programs are they using, and how long they use them. They also needed to have an overall program managing the data flow.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

But just as continual development of the iPhone eventually renders older prototypes obsolete; so too are new educational technologies pushing us past differentiation towards personalized learning. Transitioning to a personalized learning environment doesn’t happen overnight—it’s a process.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR and VR) provide deeper engagement, opportunities for collaboration, and hands-on learning that places newly acquired knowledge and skills in context. When purposefully designed, augmented reality opens equitable pathways to deep student learning. Immersive learning isn’t just for students.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR and VR) provide deeper engagement, opportunities for collaboration, and hands-on learning that places newly acquired knowledge and skills in context. When purposefully designed, augmented reality opens equitable pathways to deep student learning. Immersive learning isn’t just for students.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

At last February’s Board meeting, 10-year old Ryan inspired the adults in the room to see how tech can be leveraged for learning in a whole new light. Ryan had this chance to shine because of Fresno’s Personalized Learning Initiative (PLI), which has been fostering student voice, choice and collaboration over the last two years.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2023

Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR and VR) provide deeper engagement, opportunities for collaboration, and hands-on learning that places newly acquired knowledge and skills in context. When purposefully designed, augmented reality opens equitable pathways to deep student learning. Immersive learning isn’t just for students.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 26, 2015

We hear a lot about 'personalized learning' – the importance of reaching every student at their level, including their interests and passions, and giving them choices. When we started working with the Digital Promise Schools , I thought “personalizing learning” was our end goal. I know learners.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2018

The idea of using a learning management system (LMS) to deliver professional learning and development to K-12 educators is not new—but it’s not quite mainstream, either. The organization has been providing LMS-based professional learning for the state’s educators since 2004. “We Hint: Think AI.)

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The Principal of Change

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

” “Personalized Learning” for educators is something that is gaining more traction in education, and rightfully so. If you are passionate as an organization to provide opportunities for personalized professional learning in your organization, you have to create time where it can happen.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 5, 2019

There is no shortage of sound research on what constitutes effective professional development for teachers—focusing on specific curriculum content, encouraging active learning, supporting collaboration among peers, and offering opportunities for analysis of student work. Education policy issues must be addressed first.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2018

Moving towards personalized learning can be fraught with tension. How do you set a vision? How can you get district and state level systems to work together to get a full picture of what is happening? This helps teachers to really see what their vision for personalized learning looks like in practice.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 26, 2020

Difficult decisions have had to be made regarding grading, making funds available to get technology in the hands of disadvantaged kids, getting school work to kids where the digital divide could not be overcome, and figuring out how to provide professional learning support virtually. Google Classroom, Canvas, Schoology).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

LearnLaunch Institute , the Massachusetts Personalized Learning Edtech Consortium (MAPLE) functions as a professional learning community for 32 district members that aim to implement personalized learning. You can personalize learning just fine without technology. But it can help.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 15, 2020

Blended Learning In my opinion, the best 21st-century classrooms are “bricks” and “clicks,” blending together the best of face-to-face and online. Blended learning is not new. Blended Learning Classrooms are made of “bricks’ and “clicks” and every teacher should be ready. Learn How 2.

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The 21st Century Principal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

“We now live in a world where even twelve-year olds can create their own global classrooms around the things about which they are are most passionate,” writes Will Richardson in an essay entitled “Navigating Social Networks as Learning Tools.” But what does being “network literate” look like as it relates to personal learning networks?

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 11, 2021

I fear schools will revert to what is comfortable and what aligns with existing mental models instead of questioning the status quo, taking inventory of the lessons learned this year, and paving a new path forward. Much of that time has been focused on how to teach in online or blended learning environments.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how these two popular blended learning platforms can improve K–12 classrooms. What Does Blended Learning Mean for K–12? Teachers who establish and successfully roll out four to five stations complete the first stage of tradigital learning. . Personalized Learning Is the Ultimate Goal.

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eSchool News

APRIL 26, 2024

The course’s modules include how to use generative AI tools to modify content for different reading levels, structure activities to students’ interests, and accelerate everyday tasks like writing emails and creative assessments. “Google wants to ensure every educator can take advantage of the opportunities created by AI. “We’re

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

But many times tech is only integrated at specific points in the classroom or with a specific tool as determined by the teacher. In the edWebinar “ Students Leverage Technology Tools and Makerspaces to Personalize Learning,” Grace Borst, Innovation Specialist at St. Join the Community.

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Tom Murray

MAY 14, 2017

School leaders begin to make their plans for the summer months; from professional learning days to administrative PLCs. Each book – although very different in nature – supports dynamic teaching and learning practices. Recommended for Classroom Leaders: Book: Teaching Math with Google Apps: 50 G Suite Activities.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 9, 2019

Leaders must begin to establish a vision and strategic plan to create classrooms and buildings that are more reflective of the real world while empowering learners to use technology in powerful ways through either personalized or blended strategies and increased access in the form of BYOD or 1:1.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

Courses about Student Mental Health Strategies for Addressing Student Anxiety With the strategies and interventions you learn in this course, you will be able to create a classroom environment where students can successfully cope with stressors and instead focus on learning. How to Reach Students Who Have Experienced Trauma.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 17, 2024

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast Teachers face many challenges in the classroom, with one of the biggest being how to work with students with IEPs and disabilities. Louis County (MO), discussed how systems can oppress people and need to change. Students need voices in classrooms and chances to interact.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Iowa went 1:1 with computers for students in 2008 which meant that teachers could extend the learning beyond the four walls, so they needed to re-imagine learning. A PLN has helped Shaelynn learn from an extended network of educators how to to that. It helps teachers extend their learning beyond the four walls.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2022

If we don’t empower educators by providing support, skills and relevant, job-embedded professional learning, we risk that too few teachers will join and remain in the profession. Focus on Pathway to Learning Instead of Right and Wrong Answers How do we measure the effectiveness of improving achievement and closing learning gaps?

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 9, 2017

Personalized Learning and the Tech to Make It Happen SXSWedu 2017 Panel One of the most promising ideas in education right now is personalized learning—providing instruction that is meaningful and contextualized for every student. What does personalized learning mean? Lexia learning in elementrary grades.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 12, 2018

A recent winner of the ISTE Seal of Alignment Report , Participate.com is a professional learning networker’s dream, packed with features offering local relevance as well as the potential for global connections. The tabs on the redesigned dashboard represent the realm of learning opportunities. . Collections.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 16, 2020

Even if you’re lucky enough to have students in person in your classrooms at some point, use that precious time to work on technology skills, social-emotional resilience, building students’ capacity to be self-directed learners, creating classroom community, etc. And so on… .

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Get the right people in the room to start, and consider who will be involved over time This sounds simple, but spending time thinking about the type of team you want involved at the outset of your personalized learning vision-setting is critical. As facilitators, we often keep a few things in mind: When do we need divergent thinking?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2017

Get the right people in the room to start, and consider who will be involved over time This sounds simple, but spending time thinking about the type of team you want involved at the outset of your personalized learning vision-setting is critical. As facilitators, we often keep a few things in mind: When do we need divergent thinking?

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 18, 2020

These aren’t an effective practice in school, and thus it shouldn’t be a go-to as a means to validate a remote learning plan. These have quickly become a high agency, pedagogically sound strategy to personalize learning in school and can be adapted as part of a remote learning plan. Use playlists and choice boards.

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The challenge is teaching students how to take these disparate pieces of information and skills, analyze data to make complex decisions, and innovate when a solution is not apparent for a problem. One approach that may offer that reasonable next step in embedding personalized learning into practice is blended learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

After a weekly one-hour session, students feel closer to classmates and often add them to their ongoing PLN (Professional Learning Network). This should be true in your traditional classroom also. If the tech is intimidating, students will avoid it, will not learn the lessons, and will not enjoy your class.

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