EdTechTeam

APRIL 24, 2017

With the Common Core State Standards launching in 2009 and textbook publishers having to recreate their curriculums, many districts were left with their teachers having to come up with their own curriculum that met the new state standards. Ann-Marie Skaggs has been teaching elementary school in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2005.

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Blended Learning Common Core Learning Data 45

Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software. A recent study within a number of school districts, including the Middletown City School District, showed significantly greater academic growth in blended learning versus traditional classes.

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EdTech Blended Learning Khan Academy iPad 120

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

You want to make sure that your formative assessments are based on where the student is at, not some kind of standard that every student in your classroom has to jump through. In 2006 I gave up my job as an elementary principal to care for my wife who had Lou Gehrig’s disease.

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Khan Academy Elementary Company Personalized Learning 166

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

Over one-half of participating school districts allowed students to take home their laptops by 2004; a second RFP was issued in 2006; and the MLTI program expanded into high schools in 2009. In fact, assistant Superintendent Shawn Carlson points out the one of the most successful uses of iPads in Boothbay has been in assessments.

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iPad Laptops Classroom Report 98

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Students work on individual projects in the blended-learning classroom of Jessica Anderson, in Deer Lodge, Montana. A student-centered personalized-learning model known as competency education has gained traction over the past five years as states have developed policies to promote its adoption in both elementary and secondary schools.

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