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The Histories of Personalized Learning

Hack Education

You hear a lot of these sorts of proclamations when it comes to “personalized learning,” which is (increasingly) frequently invoked in direct opposition to some imagined or invented version of learning in the present or in the past.

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District says 24 credits and a D-minus average aren’t good enough

The Hechinger Report

Related: Personalized learning: How kids are getting into college by mastering their skills. Students are now assessed based on their “habits of scholarship” in addition to their mastery of course standards. Related: Personalized learning and Common Core: Mortal enemies? Instead of just saying, ‘Mr.

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The 4-Letter Word You Need to Know—and How Teachers and Administrators Can Embrace Data Literacy

Edsurge

He was named Maryland State Teacher of the Year in 2012. Brennan McMahon Parton, Data Quality Campaign ’s associate director of state policy and advocacy, recently spoke with him about data literacy for teachers. In fact, explicit training on what assessments mean and how to act on the data either didn’t happen or I can’t remember.

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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

edWeb.net

From 2009–2012 he served as a trustee for the State University of New York as an appointee of the governor. Noguera was recently appointed to serve as a special advisor to the governor of New Mexico on education policy. He also advises the state departments of education in Washington, Oregon, and Nevada. About the Hosts. Dr. Daniel A.

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

The Hechinger Report

The only thing most everyone agrees on is this: The roll out of the 2012 law, LD 1422, was a disaster, plagued by insufficient funding and inadequate guidance from the top. I had never seen kids so in charge of their learning.”. Related: What if personalized learning was less about me and more about us?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I It was an elaborate scam, dating back to 2012, but one that gave out many online signals that the school was “real.”

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More on the Cost Trap and Inclusive Access

Iterating Toward Openness

Back in 2012 – 2013] I was impressed (like many others I’m sure) with how Wiley was able to frame the cost-savings argument around open textbooks to build broader interest for OERs. The question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy? So that can’t be it.