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Blended Learning Models Reduce Class Sizes

eSpark

A Digital Promise case study examines the blended learning implementation at Utica Community Schools, a district in the League of Innovative Schools and one of eSpark's first and largest district partnerships. In 2012-2013, UCS adopted personalized blended learning in its 80 full-day kindergarten classrooms.

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Blended Learning Models Reduce Class Sizes

eSpark

A Digital Promise case study examines the blended learning implementation at Utica Community Schools, a district in the League of Innovative Schools and one of eSpark's first and largest district partnerships. In 2012-2013, UCS adopted personalized blended learning in its 80 full-day kindergarten classrooms.

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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. 2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ). Adaptive teaching in literacy instruction: Case studies of two teachers.

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

Doug Levin

” FY 2012 $0. Office of Management and Budget Program Assessment: Enhancing Education Through Technology (Rating: Not Performing, Results Not Demonstrated ) (undated, but stopped being maintained after the Bush administration). 2012 and 2012 (ARRA case studies). 2012 and 2012 (ARRA case studies).

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Leveling Up Language Learners’ 21st-Century Skills with Minecraft

Edsurge

We had been working for several weeks on a storytelling unit in my ESL classes in 2012. This involves navigating search engines, identifying key ideas, evaluating and assessing the quality of information and adapting it to the player’s own unique game world context. Language Learning and Minecraft. IrvSpanish. Vance Stevens.

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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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Is strength-based learning a “magic bullet?”

The Hechinger Report

Starting in preschool, teachers try to spot students’ natural talents; by kindergarten, each child’s top strengths appear on a “personalized learning plan,” a new type of report card. Waters agrees, saying that most schools don’t really move past the assessment. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter.