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Million-Dollar Advice: The High Cost and Limited Return on Personalized Learning Consulting

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Follow education technology-reform projects, and you’ll find mixed academic outcomes and expensive consultants. Turning to Consultants to Parse-Out Personalized Learning The concept of using technology to personalize the learning experience has been gaining appeal among educators seeking solutions in struggling schools. Probably not.

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SMATH: How to Turn 2 Subjects Into 1 Super-Class

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At the beginning of the year, we sat down with our respective standards to discuss strategy. By having two teachers and combining two classes, the students’ needs are much more easily met therefore improving upon methods and strategies used in the past. She achieved National Board Certification in 2011. .

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In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

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A perfect example of the device-before-pedagogy practice is the now-infamous 2011 Los Angeles Unified School District edtech initiative, which involved the purchase of more than 100,000 iPads for its classrooms to the tune of $500 million without any return on investment in terms of student outcomes. blended learning).

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