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Personalized Learning and Digital Tools Weave Strong Fabric for Student Success

EdTech Magazine

According to Project Tomorrow’s 2017 Speak Up Research Project for Digital Learning , 56 percent of parents of school-aged children are concerned that their child isn’t learning the right skills in school to be successful in college or a future job. Technology impacts instruction in a positive way, the report states.

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Learning Styles: Fact or Fiction? What This Decades-Old Theory Can Teach Us

Waterford

Surveying students on learning styles can gauge preferences, but it can’t scientifically measure the cause of academic achievement. Instead of planning activities based on learning styles, teachers may want to opt for a different, but better researched technique: differentiated instruction. and Carr, M. Kirschner, P.A.

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4 Critical Characteristics of High-Quality Instructional Content

Edsurge

K-12 educators are increasingly turning to digital resources to enhance instruction and address student needs. That’s why, in 2019, Discovery Education conducted a comprehensive research study—including a literature review, focus groups, interviews, surveys and an analysis of data usage—across our digital products and platforms.

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Adaptive literacy? 3 must-knows for teachers and admin about adaptive learning

eSchool News

The use of differentiated instruction to individualize each student’s learning experience is becoming more common in today’s elementary classrooms, but creating meaningful differentiation for a typical class of 25 students or more can still be a challenge. What should educators and administrators know about adaptive learning?

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Inclusive Schools Week Giveaway with Brookes Publishing

edWeb.net

The giveaway began with a survey in which Brookes Publishing asked special ed educators for their opinions on webinar topics for 2017. Participants in the survey were entered into a drawing to receive a tote bag full of inclusive classroom resources. Congratulations to Brookes Publishing’s randomly-selected winners; Sheila W.

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Key Findings and Tips for Adaptive Learning

edWeb.net

The use of differentiated instruction to individualize each student’s learning experience is becoming more common in today’s elementary classrooms, but creating meaningful differentiation for a typical class of 25 students or more can still be a challenge. What should educators and administrators know about adaptive learning?

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Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education

The Hechinger Report

The survey questions can be found in Appendix C of the study , pages 73-94.). One interesting finding in the student surveys was the trade-off between group work and proficiency-based education. The more that students experienced aspects of proficiency-based learning, the higher their score was on a separate engagement survey.