The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

history class, students are given a document-based question on John Locke’s Two Treatises of Civil Government (1690). Tier II support is the first layer of additional support when assessments indicate students need remediation of skills to become proficient, independent learners.) In a high school U.S. In the U.S.

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Tom Murray

APRIL 22, 2016

In December of 2015, on the same day that President Obama signed the “Every Student Succeeds Act” (ESSA), the U.S. First released in 1996 and updated every five years since, the NETP is the flagship educational technology policy document for the United States. ** This blog was originally posted at futureready.org/netp.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

His school and his state are trailblazers in personalized learning, a method that tailors instruction to students’ individual interests and learning speeds. Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. These new assessment systems are a crucial component of personalization.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

My appointment came at a time when 77 percent of McComb’s kindergarteners had not met the required performance on the state’s kindergarten readiness assessment. They wanted student-centered teaching and learning environments where success would be determined by growth rather than state assessment proficiency or seat time.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

For 12 years we’ve been documenting their disastrous outcomes, and they’re just resilient.”. Related : The pandemic’s remote learning legacy: A lot worth keeping. Under a 2018 law in Missouri, for example, virtual schools are paid a prorated monthly cost based on students’ completion of assignments and assessments.

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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.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 15, 2016

In 2015, spending on hardware for educational purposes amounted to $15 billion, an increase of 7 percent from 2014, according to Futuresource Consulting, a U.K.-based classrooms to support digital assessments and personalized learning, to the growth of different mobile personal computing devices in other parts of the world. .”

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2016

itslearning, maker of the personalized learning management platform of the same name, released “ Going Digital: A Curriculum Management Playbook ,” a guide to creating a fully integrated curriculum management system using the cloud-based platform.

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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 Principal of Change

APRIL 9, 2015

Other elements that could be incorporated: Critical Thinking, Choice, Connected Learning, Problem Finders/Solvers. Self-Assessment. Rationale: School has been set up in a way that we have become dependent upon someone else telling us how we are doing in our learning. Quick Guide. Links/Resources. What is #EDUin30?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education. I had never seen kids so in charge of their learning.”. Related: What if personalized learning was less about me and more about us? Each student had a little bar chart on their desk that tracked their progress toward mastery in each standard.

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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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The Principal of Change

APRIL 6, 2015

Voice (V), Choice (C) , Connected Learning (CL), Problem-Finders/Solvers (PFS), Reflection (R) , Self-Assessment (SA), Critical Thinking (CT), Opportunities for Innovation (INNO). What impact would that have on learning and school culture? ”. I reflect, therefore I learn. . Problem-Finders/Solvers.

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Professional Learning Edcamps Learning Assessment 28

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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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In short, differentiation is the process of personalizing universal learning goals for groups of students. As such, it is closely related to (but different than) personalized learning and individualized learning. Individualized Learning. Informal Learning. Mastery Learning. .” (22).

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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. Think the private school startup Bridge International Academies that operates in Africa, for example, which Peg Tyre documented so devastatingly in The New York Times Magazine this summer.).

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

With HMH’s blended curriculum and data tools, teachers in Jones County were able to streamline instruction and personalize learning for each student, without having to purchase extra materials or sign in on multiple platforms. This includes Epson BrightLink Interactive Displays and Document Cameras for every teaching space.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, whose vision for the future of education involves “ whole child personalized learning ” and who says it plans to invest hundreds of millions of dollars into education initiatives to that end. ” “ Assessing Social-Emotional Skills Can Be Fuzzy Work; SELweb Offers Concrete Data.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Danusis and her teaching staff practice personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach, usually aided by laptops, that has become a reformist calling card in education. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. It looks unlike any school I ever attended. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 25, 2015

But in the here and now, the reality is less romantic, and as we head towards the 2015-2016 school year, it’s just might be that teaching is more difficult than it’s ever been before. Nothing is easy, everyone’s an expert, making it too easy for the joy of teaching and learning to disappear.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 18, 2018

“Personalized learning,” for example, is arguably thousands of years old, and we can date the idea of individualizing education by using machines back to the 1920s. I confess, however, when I visit archives, I do feel bad that I delete things.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

I think many of us quickly recognized back in 2012 that, despite the AI expertise in the executive offices of these MOOC companies, there wasn’t much “artificial intelligence” beyond a few of their course offerings; there wasn’t much “intelligence” in their assessments or in their course recommendation engines.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. This is part eight of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.

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Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

million from a business that pulled in almost $1 billion in revenue in 2015 – with no fines, penalties, or admission of wrongdoing. Testing, Testing… “ Nevada officials announced Tuesday that a common-core assessment consortium will credit the state $1.8 Which one is true? It all depends on who you ask.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Hack Education

JULY 29, 2016

.” Via the AP : “ Remington Arms and the families of some victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre have agreed that any dispute over the release of company documents in a lawsuit brought by the families and a surviving teacher will be decided by a judge.” ” He is suing the university. .”

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

The governor, a Republican elected in 2015, announced on Friday that he had disbanded the university’s current 20-member Board of Trustees. The company behind the ACT on Wednesday announced plans for a Center for Equity in Learning, which will focus on helping underserved students succeed in college and the work force.”

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