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Cultivating Lifelong Learners: How to Support Personalized Teacher Growth

A Principal's Reflections

Here is how educational leaders can champion personalized professional learning for their teachers: Needs Assessment: Start with the Individual One-size-fits-all professional development (PD) is a recipe for disengagement. Conduct individual needs assessments through surveys, goal-setting conversations, or classroom observations.

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The Edtech Revolution: 2010 – 2017

Securly

“More tech-based monitoring and assessment tools will be incorporated into to the instructional mix.” Now, many schools now provide digital training professional workshops to help teachers integrate online safety best practices in their everyday classrooms. Indeed, $2.3

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The COPPA Rule, FERPA, and the Security of Student Data

Doug Levin

Department of Education have recently announced their intent to host a joint workshop on ‘Student Privacy and Ed Tech.’ ’ About this workshop and related work, they write : The use of “Ed Tech” has exploded over the past several years. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. FTC-ED-ETSLevin17-11-17.

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5 Ideas to Incorporate Assessment in Project Based Learning … Grounded in the Standards

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Most of all, thanks for being one of those over 25,000 visitors a month, over 10,000 subscribers, and possibly one of the thousands of educators that have attended my workshops at schools and conferences. Are you going to Alan November’s BLC in Boston this July (2017)? In this post, I wish to speak to the idea of assessment in PBL.

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In the News: The Problems with FERPA and COPPA

Doug Levin

5 December 2017. Levin, who maintains the “ K-12 Cyber Incident Map ,” noted that both sets of regulations “presume that schools have the resources and knowledge to assess their own data security practices, to say nothing of their vendors,” yet the evidence says otherwise.

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The Difference Between Personalized Learning And Individualized Learning

TeachThought - Learn better.

In practice, the definition of differentiation focuses on meeting the needs of all learners, beginning through assessments of where their skills currently stand. Lorna Earl explains the relationship between assessments and Differentiation best. See TeachThought Differentiation Workshops. Individualization Of Learning.

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Critical Research Questions for Powerful Learning Networks

Digital Promise

During the first phase of this project – research planning and design – we worked with teams from seven EdClusters as well as network and learning science researchers to workshop research questions and develop research designs. Collectively, they form the basis for a shared research agenda for Education Innovation Clusters as a whole.

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