TeachThought - Learn better.
MAY 12, 2020
Competency-Based Learning. Competency-Based Education is something I’m hearing more and more about, which is neither bad nor good, but worth understanding more carefully. Comparing an unsupported MOOC from 2008 to an in-person college experience isn’t apples to apples. Use of data analytics.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Since the 2008 Time magazine cover story on Washington, D.C. Teachers want the focus off of the flawed standardized data culture and back on the children as developing human beings who deserve more than test prep and basic skills. That made fiscal and pedagogical sense.
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MindShift
JULY 9, 2015
If a student fails to learn a skill, he or she accepts that result and moves on to the next topic with the rest of the class. Competency-based learning, on the other hand, insists on mastery of subjects and provides students the time to learn; the students are not marched past failure.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 21, 2017
Related: A Spanish-English high school proves learning in two languages can boost graduation rates. The impetus for the change at Juarez can be traced to Ocon’s appointment as principal in 2008, veteran school staffers say. It was a trade-off that veteran Juarez teachers say was worth it. More of that change is underway.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.
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