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Use Personalized Learning Tools to Boost Classroom Equity

EdTech Magazine

more states, districts and schools are moving toward a competency-based education system that focuses on individualized learning and classroom equity. But what exactly is a competency-based education system, and what role does technology play in the design and support of this system?

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Higher Ed’s Credit Transfer System Is Broken. Here’s a Better Way.

Edsurge

From 2004 to 2009, transfer students on average lost 43 percent of their credits—basically a semester’s worth. As a flurry of schools have shifted to a pass-fail grading system for the current semester, some institutions have balked at the prospect of accepting these non-letter grades. Dude, Where’s My Credit?

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How to Increase Family Involvement with Connection

Waterford

Family and Parent Engagement Strategies You Can Try Families and teachers form a support system for students throughout the school year. Email is also an option accessible to most. 2004, November). By taking simple steps every day to connect with families, you can positively impact your school atmosphere. Redding, S.,

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SCORM: What is it? A Complete Study

Kitaboo on EdTech

SCORM put forward specific ways and methods for creating effective and efficient learning management systems. Hence, if an eLearning course is published in the SCORM format, an internationally accepted format, it will be recognized by all learning management systems (LMS). This is where SCORM comes into play. What is SCORM?

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Understanding, Teaching, and Reaching Digital Native Students—and Digital Native Caregivers

Waterford

The educational system structure was designed for that analog world. Teachers should remember that not every family may be able to afford Internet access, so old-fashioned printed notes and bulletins still have a place in the student’s backpack. Education, Communication & Information, 2004, 4(1), pp. ASCD InService.

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AeroFarms Celebrates World Environment Day with Bronx School PS 85

eSchool News

This program promotes hands-on environmental education and year-round access to fresh and nutritious leafy greens through the proprietary AeroFarms unit and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics) curriculum.

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How flawed IQ tests prevent kids from getting help in school

The Hechinger Report

To get her son even modified access to the regular kindergarten curriculum, Barlow would need to show that his potential to learn exceeded his test scores. To this day, some schools, like Lester’s, withhold access to sufficient academic instruction for many children with low IQs, said Kentucky parent and lawyer Barlow. “It