Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

WHAT: Piedmont Middle School is seeking to pilot digital learning programs that support competency-based learning in science and social studies. For more information about the district, watch this short documentary: Changing a Rural Community’s Expectations Through 24/7 Learning. What happens next?

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Education Elements

JUNE 8, 2016

From 2009 to 2011, following the book’s publication, the Hume Foundation made grants to Rocketship in the Bay Area and Carpe Diem in Yuma, AZ, two charter schools that were already implementing blended learning, to promote their models. Personalized learning is an idea whose time has come.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

At Montpelier High School, in Vermont’s capital city, teachers spent years defining the school’s “proficiencies” and rewriting their lesson plans to highlight those core objectives in the lead-up to the transition in 2016, when all grades and classes switched to a proficiency-based model at once. percent between 2009 and 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The high school graduation rate in Utah’s Juab School District was 78 percent in 2009. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

In the classroom, computer-based programs can give students additional support as they work to master the vocabulary and mechanics of English. STUDENT-CENTERED LEARNING Another term for personalized learning, but tending to emphasize the needs of individual students rather than the goals of the teacher, school or district.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. They’re distracted.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

At least 10 states now permit students to take classes part-time online (and sometimes in other in-person classrooms), instead of being limited to their local course offerings; eight adopted or considered laws in just the last four years.

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