Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

There Should Be Something for Everyone For educators, the biggest advantage of digital resources is the ability to personalize content for students. Educators use a variety of resources to meet the needs and interests of individual students, including videos, images, games, non-fiction text and varying types of assessments.

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Survey Differentiated Instruction Common Core Student Engagement 211

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

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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Policies Personalized Learning Assessment Professional Learning 189

Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2019

AltSchool, a developer of personalized learning software that once operated a chain of “microschools,” is getting a major makeover. This morning, the San Francisco-based company announced a series of “sweeping changes” that includes a new name—Altitude Learning—and new leadership. In 2017, it started closing schools.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2017

How can school and district leaders leverage research-based practices and models of success to create an effective personalized learning ecosystem for all learners? These components are: Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment. Personalized Professional Learning. Budget and Resources. Community Partnerships.

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Future Ready Advocacy Strategy Assessment 61

Waterford

OCTOBER 30, 2019

How would you discover a student’s learning style? Measuring learning styles often involves an assessment such as this one from the Georgia Department of Education. One study conducted in Taiwan, for example, came to the conclusion that educating students on learning styles can encourage self-reflection—always a positive thing.[9]

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

percent (about 10,000 students) in the 2017-2018 school year, to 15.1 Distance learning began March 23. Simon and the rest of the district turned their focus to food security , internet connectivity for families in need and online suicide prevention assessments. But it has proven elusive. percent (about 240 students)—up from 17.2

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2017

Five years into a massive transition to a personalized learning model, Educators at Fulton County School District in Georgia are scratching their heads wondering where they went wrong. Through a special-purpose local option sales tax , the district hoped to raise over $200 million to add 65,000 devices in schools by 2017.

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Personalized Learning Education Elementary Laptops 114

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

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. 57, cited in Vaughn, 2015, p. 57, cited in Vaughn, 2015, p. 2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ).

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Study Outcomes Elementary Data 121

Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

FY 2015 $0. Obama administration FY 2015 request for a proposed replacement educational technology program (see page 5) : “ $200 million for a new ConnectEDucators initiative that would help educators transition to using technology and data to personalize learning and improve CCR [college- and career-ready] instruction and assessment.

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Policies Technology Program Evaluation Education 150

Shake Up Learning

MAY 31, 2022

Every day more schools and districts are switching to Lumio – it’s truly a flexible, time-saving tool that makes it easy to turn your PDFs, Google Slides, PowerPoint, and Notebook files into engaging lessons with interactive activities, games, group workspaces, and formative assessment ALL built right in. © Shake Up Learning 2022.

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Elementary Differentiated Instruction Assessment Training 86

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 28, 2023

With built-in student differentiation and support, every student gets a personalized learning experience designed for their unique needs. Her books and resources are used around the world: THE WRITING STRATEGIES BOOK (2017) and THE READING STRATEGIES BOOK (1st edition) (2015) have been translated into French, Chinese, and Spanish.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

At BWRSD, we have used the opportunity to develop and communicate a new, shared vision of personalized instruction that fosters deeper learning for all students. Our journey began in the Fall of 2015 with the convening of a Future Ready Leadership Team representing a cross-section of school and district leaders.

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Future Ready Learning Digital Learning Assessment 140

Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

MARCH 4, 2019

Here are a few more resources to help understand that journey the school has been on, already shared on my blog: Creating the time and space for self-directed, personalized, inquiry learning. The 2015 CEA Ken Spencer Award goes to Inquiry Hub. Learning and Failure. Relevance Amplifies Learning. Anthony Ciolfitto.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 27, 2020

These and other important lessons from Oregon’s Gresham-Barlow School District were discussed during a recent edWebinar , hosted by AASA, The Superintendents Association and AASA’s Leadership Network , with the district’s Superintendent, Dr. Katrise Perera, and Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment, Lisa Riggs.

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Professional Learning Assessment Outcomes Secondary 58

Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2017

How a school defines student success influences its design and impacts critical aspects such as professional learning, curriculum, assessment and school culture. Building a Common Language Across Academic and Non-Academic Learning Experiences For LAB, redefining student success has been a gradual evolution.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2017

In December 2015, I found myself toiling away on a fifth grade figurative language lesson in a unique place—a local tech meetup called Code For Vegas. I saw that I needed to move beyond formative assessment of skills. I needed to ask students whether or not they enjoyed the learning experience—that’s what Apple would do.

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Classroom Company Blended Learning Assessment 152

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2018

And on Tuesday, The Learning Accelerator and Yet Analytics announced the Learning Commons , a new, free website that will gather curated professional development resources for those who are working to implement blended or personalized learning in their classrooms.

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OER How To Common Core Instructional Materials 85

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

But a 2015 study by a Stanford University research team compared academic outcomes of students at 158 online charter schools in 17 states with those of students in brick-and-mortar schools in their states who were matched on numerous characteristics, including prior test scores. No ratings were issued in 2019-20 because of the pandemic.).

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

In 2017, there has been an emergence of online communication tools connecting users online from across the globe. As citizens in an increasingly wired world, we frequently hear about the adverse impact of technology in everything from eroding our attention span to fueling the dissemination of fake news.

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Social Media Outcomes Technology Tools 95

100mentors

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In general education, where the IB Diploma Programme (DP) belongs, we have to teach “students with learning difficulties, gifted students, and students with no identified exceptionality” (Altemueller & Lindquist, 2017). We can’t turn a blind eye to this learning diversity in our classroom.

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Flipped Classroom Differentiated Instruction How To Learning 68

100mentors

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In general education, where the IB Diploma Programme (DP) belongs, we have to teach “students with learning difficulties, gifted students, and students with no identified exceptionality” (Altemueller & Lindquist, 2017). We can’t turn a blind eye to this learning diversity in our classroom. Abeysekera, L., & Dawson, P.

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Flipped Classroom Differentiated Instruction How To Learning 78

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

In 2015, that effort expanded to include four-year scholarships for eligible I Promise students to the University of Akron. But barriers to eligibility for that scholarship persisted: Just 76 percent of students in Akron Public Schools’ class of 2017 graduated from high school within four years.

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Course Groups Study Elementary 147

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

While it’s hard to say precisely how much stress educators face, experts say the sources of stress have multiplied in recent years, including a constant stream of new reform efforts, ranging from technology platforms to personalized learning initiatives. Studies also suggest that lower teacher stress improves student learning.

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Training Elementary Report Exercises 111

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Imperative 5: Create Balanced Assessments. Assessments look far different than 10-15 years ago, but it’s not just the switch to computerized testing. Successful schools look at assessments as a jumping off point to evaluate curriculum, teaching methods, student engagement, etc.

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Technology PowerMyLearning Learning EdTech 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2016

AltSchool – a California-based chain that promises to use technology to help teachers provide personal-fit lessons for its students – will share its proprietary technology in 2017 with three independent schools in Virginia and Florida, it announced Tuesday. It’s an interesting idea.

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Technology Facebook Blended Learning System 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

It’s too soon to know how well the free pilot program mixing online and in-person learning will work, but one thing is clear: Without it, said Holmes County Superintendent Angel Meeks, AP physics in this rural Mississippi district “would not exist.”. In 2017, the average score on all AP exams in Mississippi was a 2.2,

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Online Learning Learning Course Blended Learning 73

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

Personalized learning is still in its infancy—as are the curricular tools and resources available to support teachers in implementing it. There are plenty of resources with step-by-step guides and blueprints designed to walk teachers through a process to personalize learning. Image Credit: Mark Engstrom.

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Learning Personalized Learning Blended Learning Course 141

MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2021

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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Personalized Learning Education Learning Training 45

MindShift

MARCH 6, 2018

It’s too soon to know how well the free pilot program mixing online and in-person learning will work, but one thing is clear: Without it, said Holmes County Superintendent Angel Meeks, AP physics in this rural Mississippi district “would not exist.”. In 2017, the average score on all AP exams statewide was a 2.2, nationwide.

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Online Learning Learning Course Report 31

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

percent in 2017. Barile’s class is a prime example of how Revere High School uses “student-centered learning” to reach a highly diverse student body. Students learn at different paces and via different teaching styles, the thinking goes. percent in 2017. percent in 2009 to 87.9 percent in 2009 to 87.9

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E-rate Report Assessment Study 111

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 3, 2017

Murray @thomascmurray is the 2017 US “Thought Leader of the Year” and shares what actually works in edtech. In this podcast, Tom shares the research and highlights, some of which are included in the book Learning Transformed that he co-authored with Eric Sheninger. That was some sort of a benchmark or maybe just a common assessment.

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EdTech Future Ready Policies Technology 209

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

million in venture capital from high profile names like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and from firms active in ed-tech investing such as Learn Capital. The company sold The Financial Times and its stake in The Economist in 2015, for example. The company has raised some $77.5 They’re supposedly “engines of innovation.”

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 25, 2017

Friday, August 25, 2017. Learn more about formative assessment. If you want to listen – Monica Burns did a fantastic podcast episode about her Favorite Formative Assessment Tools. If you prefer reading, see Fantastic, Fast Formative Assessment Tools (a post I wrote on Edutopia). Transcript for Episode 135.

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Social Media Blended Learning Data Blackboard 236

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

MARCH 10, 2020

This is something not to be glossed over; through communication and strategic planning, your journey to a CBE system should make clear how competency-based learning is not "one more thing on your plate" but instead becomes the plate where personalized learning, PBL, blended learning and other initiatives smoothly "sit" on and build toward.)

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Competency Based Learning Education Blended Learning Common Core 52

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

This goal-setting feature is part of the Summit Learning Platform, an online tool used in a personalized learning program created by Summit Public Schools. shows that implementing technology is only part of the struggle for public schools seeking to make the switch to personalized learning models. People cried.

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Personalized Learning Differentiated Instruction Elementary Data 110

Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2016

The Associate of Science in Social Sciences is expected to launch in 2017, as are Z-degrees in General Studies and Applied and Criminal Sciences. This version of courseware acts as an OER delivery system but is augmented by personalized learning features that help faculty members connect with students and guides student learning.

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Adaptive Learning OER Learning Course 83