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Playlists vs. Choice Boards: What is the difference?

Catlin Tucker

When students arrive at a teacher check-in, they join a queue to meet with the teacher. During the teacher check-ins, teachers meet one-on-one with students to review their work, provide focused feedback, discuss their progress, and make adjustments to their individual playlists to ensure they continue making progress.

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Meet the 5 Education Technology Startups From Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Class

Edsurge

Since 2005, Y Combinator has funded 1,430 companies and nearly 3,500 founders. Intensive” doesn’t quite capture the dedication that these courses require. By the summer of 2016, they had six courses covering JavaScript, SQL and other typical languages. Each course is made up of 70-odd short lessons and exercises.

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Three Things We Learned at Khan Academy Over the Last Decade

Edsurge

In 2005, Sal Khan founded Khan Academy, the online education nonprofit where is now CEO, and in 2014 he founded the Khan Lab School. I, like many teachers, share a deep belief that we should decide how to best meet the needs of students before turning to technology. Stay tuned for other reflections in the coming weeks.

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On the Impossibility of the Community-based Production of Learning Content

Iterating Toward Openness

Back in 2005 I was blessed with the opportunity to commission a short paper from Yochai Benkler (who did much of the first serious work on the economics of open source software development, e.g., Coase’s Penguin and Sharing Nicely ) in conjunction with a keynote talk he gave at OpenEd that year. ” It got me thinking.

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Closing campuses doesn’t necessarily move vulnerable people out of harm’s way

The Hechinger Report

An estimated 100,000 students were displaced by Katrina when the levees failed after the hurricane in August of 2005. Many students never recovered from the displacement of 2005. Without a check, they could not meet expenses. The number of students impacted by the closures due to COVID-19 will be exponentially higher.

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How Sustained Silent Reading Keeps Students Curious and Engaged

Edsurge

I can't believe how lucky it is that I got this job after moving to a new area because I'm meeting all sorts of interesting, amazing people and learning a lot about this area.” Then, of course, I think a huge part of a program like this is allowing students to talk about the books they selected. I'm going to stop." That was it.

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Carnegie Learning Bets Big on Coding With Acquisition of Globaloria

Edsurge

Globaloria offers online courses, lesson plans and teacher training support to introduce students to the concepts behind computer science and coding. More than 40,000 students have used Globaloria’s computer science courses over the years, and the team has trained more than 1,100 teachers and education leaders. “We