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Personalizing the Journey for Our Students

The Principal of Change

The learning experience is not personalized and thus will not meet the needs of all students. Katie goes on to describe how each scenario can be shifted to meet the needs of individual learners: In the 3rd-grade class, some sprawl on beanbag chairs, silently reading from well-worn copies of Charlotte’s Web. The problem?

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Why a High-Achieving District Keeps Tinkering With a School Model That Already Works

Edsurge

So in spring of 2014, when the district proposed implementing a 1:1 technology initiative that would help teachers and students transition to a personalized learning model, there was some resistance from families and the board rejected the proposal. Presidential Scholars. By fall of 2018, all students in grades 1-12 will have a device.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

What can we expect in 2016 from the intersection of technology and education? There’s now a movement to teach humanities seminars online. Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. That should extend into 2016. I expect to see numerous stories along these lines in 2016.

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Is strength-based learning a “magic bullet?”

The Hechinger Report

They’re among the 10 “talent themes,” or strengths, used to underpin learning in the school district here. 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.

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How Khan Academy’s Founder Designs a Brick and Mortar School for Kids

MindShift

“So the last couple of seminars we’ve been talking about technologies that will potentially change the world,” the 39-year-old Louisiana native tells the students. The seminar topic when I visited? The school’s ethos of playful, student-driven inquiry gives it a Montessori-meets-Willy Wonka feel.

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Throw the cookie cutters away: Remaking high schools for the 21st Century

The Hechinger Report

trying to learn what can be done to improve dismal graduation rates, along with looking at efforts to get more teenagers invested and interested in school. This op-ed comes to us via the Carnegie Corporation, among our many funders, based on Monday’s White House meeting on the topic. We welcome new views and voices! high schools?

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What’s school without grade levels?

The Hechinger Report

Two teachers, known as “academic advisors,” were on call to field questions and ensure everybody stayed on task (the teachers also lead weekly seminars or labs to bolster the computer work). There’s so much behind music to learn.”. Educators wanted students to engage more and apply their learning in meaningful ways.”.

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