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Tight on Goals, Flexible on Means: Universal Design for Learning Empowers Opportunity Youth

Digital Promise

UDL’s principles are powerful supports for Opportunity Youth who have opted out of schools and learning environments that failed to meet their needs. In 2016, we had our first participant from a YouthBuild International program in Mexico City. With CAST, we have created the Learning Differences Leadership Cohort of Fellows. Learn More.

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Customizing Learning to Innovate “Inside the Box”

The Principal of Change

Instead of teachers coming in on certain professional learning days, if they were to blog or share actual work and link it back to a simple google doc, they could earn days in lieu through the process. September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! The administrator could not wrap their head around the idea.

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

Edsurge

A 2016 report funded by the Gates Foundation found that in the U.S. The best and most digestible books I’ve found are “ The ABCS of How We Learn ,” a 2016 book by Daniel Schwartz and “ How People Learn ,” the 1999 foundational text edited by John Bransford, Ann Brown, and Rodney Cocking. alone, there are 13,000 instructional designers.

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Questions of Compliance or Empowerment?

The Principal of Change

Many students are smart enough that they know how to meet the objectives of a rubric and still not grow much in their learning. ”, reminded me of something I recently read on Will Richardson’s blog : “Schools place an overwhelming emphasis on teaching children to solve problems correctly, not creatively.”

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“Telling will never be as effective as experiencing.”

The Principal of Change

Because of this, the original plan for the day was shifted to meet the needs of the group. We started off with an extended lunch break to blog. Instead of giving an hour for lunch, we gave two hours, with the expectation that a blog post for their portfolio was done at the end of the time. This leads into the second point.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“In a sweeping move, the for-profit school chain has been told to lock its doors after parliament demanded it halt operations in response to its failure to meet educational and infrastructure standards.” From the US Department of Education’s blog : “Building the Next Generation of Assessments in Education.”

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Speak Up, Speak Out! The Student Voices That Stirred Higher Ed in 2016

Edsurge

In 2016 we added one of our own to the mix: EdSurge Independent. EdSurge Independent is a student-run community that meets online once a week to discuss trends and ideas within postsecondary education, and share their experiences on a student-run Medium blog. Personal blog). This Mongolian Teenager Aced a MOOC.