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3 Months, 3 Micro-credentials, 1 Teacher: Building Performance Assessment Capacity in Georgia

Digital Promise

Kimberly Sheppard is a personalized learning coach for Henry County Schools in Georgia. In that capacity, she is participating—along with eighty or so of her Henry County colleagues—in the Assessment for Learning micro-credential project , led by the Center for Collaborative Education (CCE).

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Digital Portfolios + Micro-credentials = Massive Impact for Students & Teachers

Digital Promise

Assessment. Research reveals that students ubiquitously perceive assessment as something that is “done to them [sic] by someone else — and is out of their control.” With very little first-hand experience with personalized learning, many teachers and education administrators have difficulty fathoming its power.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

Please feel free to comment if you believe I’ve missed a key document or piece of crucial information, or if you have a question regarding the context of a specific statement or document. In any case, do not be surprised if I periodically return to this post to update or add key facts and documents. FY 2010 $100,000,000.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

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. The importance of adaptability for teachers is well documented in the research literature (e.g., Madda et al.,

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Do You Have the Backbone for a PLN?

My Island View

Technology’s effect on education is difficult to assess, because it is not just the technology that affects the learning. If there are three teachers teaching the same subjects in a school and are given equal access to technology, how can the technology impact on learning be fairly assessed?

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education. I had never seen kids so in charge of their learning.”. Related: What if personalized learning was less about me and more about us? Nellie Mae, which had $430 million in assets at the end of 2009, began investing its own money in Maine, too.

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Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

The rubrics and learning targets are now fixtures in each Montpelier classroom. In the four-column rubric for precalculus assessment, Machnik explained what it would take to be “emerging,” “developing,” “proficient” and “exemplary” in trigonometric equations. percent between 2009 and 2017. percent to 89.1