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4 Critical Characteristics of High-Quality Instructional Content

Edsurge

That’s why, in 2019, Discovery Education conducted a comprehensive research study—including a literature review, focus groups, interviews, surveys and an analysis of data usage—across our digital products and platforms. 2016 digital education survey. E-textbooks: A Personalized Learning Experience or a Digital Distraction?

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BoomWriter Delivers a Free Common Core Aligned Personalized Literacy Tool

The 21st Century Principal

BoomWriter’s interactive collaborative writing platform lets teachers deliver a fun and engaging personalized learning experience, while elementary, middle, and high school age students work online to develop their reading, writing, and peer assessment skills. BoomWriter uses a simple process but with a technology twist.

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Design Thinking Process and UDL Planning Tool for STEM, STEAM, Maker Education

User Generated Education

Many of those same qualities are goals of the Common Core State Standards. They may interview, do observations or survey them about the problem. Barbara co-authored two books on personalized learning with Kathleen McClaskey: Make Learning Personal and How to Personalize Learning.

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

Their changed view — and that of others who shunned Rogers and now want in — is driven by what seems to be a magic educational elixir: personalized learning. Philanthropists, state education officials, reform advocates — even charter school leaders — are examining personalized learning. What can that look like?

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Curious About Place-Based Education? Let the STAR School Be Your Guide

Edsurge

The curriculum, designed to serve the school’s exclusively Native population, emphasizes Navajo language and culture as much as it does the Common Core standards. Its studies are based on hundreds of interviews and thousands of surveys with students and educators across 12 states.

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20 Questions To Help Decide What’s Best For Your Kids (And You) This School Year

MindShift

Do you have what you need to make learning easier at home? Look at your state’s learning standards to get a sense of what your child should be learning this year. Many are based on the Common Core. This survey suggests mothers are doing more. Do you have a partner? Could the partner step up?

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Do Alternatives to Public School Have to Be Political?

Edsurge

Mysa’s curriculum relies on Common Core, the same national standards as public schools, Fiske says. Ultimately, Fiske says, the goal is personalized learning. A lot of people are doing this less out of interest in, say, personalized learning and more because they want to get children away from public school, Fiske says.

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