The PL2C Blog

AUGUST 28, 2017

Charlotte, NC – Today The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at NC State University’s College of Education and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) released an in-depth case study on CMS’ Personalized Learning (PL) efforts. While each school is unique, they share common goals in personalizing learning for their students.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 30, 2017

As he shared recently with the League’s competency-based education working group, he and his team have transformed LUSD by engaging the community, introducing a personalized learning structure, and using technology to empower learners and their families. Prioritizing Personalized Learning. Engaging the Community.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2017

Still, there are increasing calls for educators and entrepreneurs alike to design and implement innovative education programs and products based on learning science findings. In 2016, we launched the Research Map to provide education stakeholders a visual way to explore the full landscape of education and learning science research.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2024

The changes are not just incremental; they are foundational, reshaping the very nature of how we teach and learn. This facet of modern education transcends the traditional use of textbooks and blackboards, weaving digital tools seamlessly into the learning process (NETP, 2017)). And guess what?

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

It is titled Experiences in Self-Determined Learning and can be found at [link]. Self-determined learning or heutagogy is fast gaining interest from educators around the world interested in an evidence-based approach to learning. This edited book is the perfect primer on self-determined learning or heutagogy. The Basics.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Kids are helped along by access to take-home devices and individualized learning plans that allow them to progress through class material at their own speed. While the pandemic still took its toll, adapting to online learning was smoother in Lindsay due to its preexisting infrastructure and history of adaptation.

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Waterford

MARCH 11, 2021

The great news is that digital natives want to learn. This can be tremendously beneficial—for instance, when scheduling online learning or virtual parent-teacher conferences when in-person learning isn’t possible. And that means schools will have to adapt to the way these new students think and learn.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

.” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. This change remained in appropriations language from FY 2007 through FY 2011.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 7, 2014

My father was an elementary principal for 30 years and I always admired how he was able to inspire his staff to focus on student learning. After having assumed the duties of both athletic director and vice principal at New Milford High School I became the principal in 2007. As a young principal I made many mistakes in my early years.

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Educational Technology Guy

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Edchat Interactive is a new type of free, online PD brought to you by some of the same folks who created #echat twitter discussions, including Tom Whitby and Steven Anderson , who are both friends of mine and in my Personal Learning Network and great educators. The online format allows for interaction, reflection and social learning.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

because teaching is no longer an isolated profession; it’s a dynamic and interconnected field requiring teachers to work collaboratively and build expansive professional and personal learning networks. It’s a conduit for staying abreast of the latest educational trends, resources, and technologies. Madda et al.,

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

They’re among the 10 “talent themes,” or strengths, used to underpin learning in the school district here. Starting in preschool, teachers try to spot students’ natural talents; by kindergarten, each child’s top strengths appear on a “personalized learning plan,” a new type of report card. Future of Learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

For $295, this all-inclusive event (except for hotel and travel) is an amazing opportunity to learn. If every student learned as fast as they possibly could, they’d all move at different paces, and accomplish things as quickly as they can. Vicki: So we need to personalize learning. www.stlinatl.com. Listen Now.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2021

We learn so much by being active and engaged in play.”. The District of Columbia school system, which was not part of the RAND study, is attempting to address absenteeism through an “ earn-and-learn ” program that combines paid jobs with mandatory academics, providing kids a chance to catch up while gaining traditional work experience.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

In theory, proficiency-based models let students learn at their own pace, speeding up if they grasp a concept quickly, and getting extra help if they struggle. In practice, though, it can take many different forms, including independent study, learning communities and online programs. Kelly Field, for The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2017

Digital Promise has compiled a Research Map based on data from more than 100,000 articles published between 2007 and 2016. The dozen main topics include: instruction and teacher learning, cognition and memory, online learning and so on. The structure of the map helps plot out how research topics connect to each other.

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Edthena

JANUARY 15, 2021

Education researchers Laureen Cervone Avery and Patricia Martinez-Miller (2007) describe classroom walkthroughs as a tool that should “drive a cycle of continuous improvement by focusing on the effects of instruction.” Ultimately the person observing is able to identifying trends in teaching and learning across the set of classrooms.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 8, 2016

It all began around 2003 when the smartphone wars started with Blackberry, but was quickly taken over by the Apple iPhone in 2007. Thus a paradigm shift constitutes a change from one way of thinking to another to spur a revolution that transforms learning and professional practice. At this point change began to happen at a rapid pace.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 15, 2019

I attended an event in Utrecht, in the Netherlands way back in 2007, at around the time that social media was emerging as a serious learning technology. Together for two days, we discussed how digital technologies and networks could support learning. That's what a community is, and should be - sharing and learning together.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

” George Couros, primarily from 2007-2017. This space is to show learning and growth, and here my shift right now is that I used to think “A” and now I think “B.” October 22, 2011 Happiness and Balance August 29, 2011 Defending from Twitter Overload November 10, 2011 Lost in Learning. That was me.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

“Don’t call it professional development—call it professional learning.” Vice President and Managing Director at SIIA, made this statement in a recent edWebinar , with Jeff Mao, CEO, Edmoxie LLC, Bruce Umpstead, Director of State Programs at IMS Global Learning Consortium, and Ilya Zeldin, Founder and CEO of 2gnoMe.

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EdTechSandyK

DECEMBER 15, 2009

This content below is written as a reflection on what I learned in week four of the Teaching with Technology course I am taking as I pursue a master''s degree in educational technology leadership. I found that I love learning "across space"! The power of cooperative learning, or as Pitler et. In Web 2.0:

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Education Superhighway

AUGUST 9, 2018

Equitable digital access is the foundation for ensuring that teachers can personalize learning and provide students with the educational opportunities they need to be prepared for college and a career. How comfortable are they using technology as a learning tool? What kinds of technology do your students use in the classrooms?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Meanwhile, the schools that shared their ideas focused on student-centered learning and models that honor the differences in students and “think about personalized learning beyond just technology.” Employers on the platform, meanwhile, get to learn about the potential of their current employees.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 30, 2016

school district since 2007, will be the senior vice president of digital learning for the Silver Spring, Md.-based who have visited the town to learn from its community of educators. Edwards, who has been superintendent of the Mooresville, N.C., based company.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 31, 2015

I first met Graham at an event in the UK around 2006, just when I was becoming aware of the potential of social media such as wikis, blogs and social networking platforms as a learning tools. He also heads up the European research agency Pontydysgu (A Bridge to Learning). Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

Finally, I will suggest that there are five key objectives to achieve if universities are to achieve success in the use of learning technologies in the future. applications have grown out of the need for people to connect together, share experiences and knowledge, enhance their experiences and open up new possibilities in learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Join me Thursday, October 7th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com interview with Joseph DiMartino and Denise Wolk on their book, The Personalized High School: Making Learning Count for Adolescents.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

The next school day and a just a few floors below, Miller is in the school’s biotechnology lab where students are learning the skills they would need for a job testing specimens for the presence of amalyse, the protein enzyme that breaks down starch into sugar. It’s a challenging curriculum for high schoolers, O’Toole said.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This is a throwback post, first published in March 2014 (and referring to yet another post all the way back in 2007). In the original article, I gave a list of what computing skills mathematics majors should learn and when they should learn them. Mostly this is because of two things. and then somewhat sparingly.

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The Daring Librarian

MAY 2, 2010

Because we''ve had the opportunity in Maryland to see people like Will Richardson, Kathy Shrock, Hal Davidson, and of course my personal hero.Joyce Valenza and to LEARN cool new cutting edge things and get our minds blown and we only had to drive to Baltimore to do it. My first was Atlanta in 2007 and yeah.it i mean, sheesh.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 19, 2015

Since at least 2007, Education Next has commissioned an annual public opinion poll to help inform the K-12 education policy discussion in DC and the states, as well as to suggest lines of inquiry for further research.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Here, we provide an umbrella for these people and these organizations to network and to learn from each other. For me, it’s a deep passion belief in the value of and the importance of global in our own personal learning. Will Play in Education,” and the recipient of the 2010 Technology in Learning Leadership Award (CUE).

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2020

Khosla is the founder and CEO of CK-12 , the 30-person nonprofit that she started in 2007 to deliver free digital books, particularly on math and science topics. Her mission has been constant: Give students and teachers high-quality, free resources that can help each learn in their own way.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. million in venture capital from high profile names like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and from firms active in ed-tech investing such as Learn Capital. Arguably, one of the best candidates is the learning management system.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

Proponents of action civics, an outgrowth of service learning that has students lobby for change in their communities, see it as a way to engage and empower students, preparing them for a lifetime of civic involvement. They liken it to a laboratory in science class, where students learn civics by doing civics.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

JULY 14, 2020

As we move more into the world of online learning and teaching for students, it is becoming apparent that teachers are also needing to move online for their own professional learning. The ultimate goal of professional development is a better learning environment for students. I have included them below. Messaging Apps.

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