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Playlists vs. Choice Boards: What is the difference?

Catlin Tucker

The playlist, or individual rotation model, is a blended learning model that strives to give students more control over the pace and path of their learning. When I facilitate workshops on this model, I describe it as a sequence of learning activities designed to move students toward a specific learning goal or objective.

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10 edtech experts you should follow

Hapara

After helping teachers transition to online learning during the pandemic, she began writing about her experiences, including a chapter on online learning in Like No Other School Year. She also wrote a full guide to online and digital learning, A Teacher’s Guide to Online Learning. .

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10 districts that have seen big blended learning success

eSchool News

Edgenuity highlights schools, districts implementing blended learning. As schools and districts try to better meet the needs of students with different learning styles, blended learning programs are becoming increasingly popular. Jefferson Chamber Foundation Academy , La. Rio Rancho Public Schools , N.M. •

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Virtual School Tips and Recommendations

The Thinking Stick

2005 – In Shanghai I helped to set up, run and train teachers to go Virtual School-though we didn’t end up closing due to SARS. In the two times that I was in Virtual School, we learned that teachers often gave way too much work for students to do at home. This was our #1 take away from Virtual School in 2010 in Bangkok.

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Preparing Teaching Candidates for Blended and Online Environments

Fractus Learning

At Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina, faculty in the School of Education have developed pathways to help teaching candidates gain experience exploring, evaluating, and applying methods for online and blended instruction. These courses include blended methods and technologies for blended learning environments.

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Nearly half of education-vendor websites tested had security problems, audit reveals

The Hechinger Report

Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. “We More than 780 breaches in schools, resulting in the disclosure of more than 14,790,000 records, have been reported since 2005, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse , a California-based nonprofit consumer advocate. Read more about Blended Learning.

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States can change the way they think about education, but will they?

The Hechinger Report

Notably, the law provides financial and regulatory support for policies compatible with “personalized learning,” a teaching method that gives students custom-fit lessons, the choice to pursue individual passions and the ability to move as quickly (or slowly) as needed to master skills and concepts. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.