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Why Is It so Hard to Teach K-12 Educators How to Personalize Learning?

Edsurge

Why is it so hard to teach K-12 educators how to promote student agency and to provide choices around content and pacing—why is it so hard to teach educators how to personalize learning? I wanted my course to provide a learning environment where students can use their voice to guide their projects and make choices that actually matter.

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Understanding, Teaching, and Reaching Digital Native Students—and Digital Native Caregivers

Waterford

This can be tremendously beneficial—for instance, when scheduling online learning or virtual parent-teacher conferences when in-person learning isn’t possible. There are some handy guidelines for the proper role of technology in education. September 2017. November 2017. Sources: “Teaching Digital Natives.”

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Design Thinking Process and UDL Planning Tool for STEM, STEAM, Maker Education

User Generated Education

UDL was designed to reduce the barriers to the curriculum and maximize learning. UDL has reordered the principles and guidelines, to begin with, Multiple Means of Engagement, the Why of Learning that compliments how the Design Thinking Process involves learners in identifying an authentic problem or challenge. Please join us!

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Using Technology to Humanize

The Principal of Change

The reason I bring this up is that I have seen a lot of pushback on the idea of “personalized learning” ( this is a fascinating article on the topic by Anya Kamenetz ) and how it is leading our kids to be focused on a screen. Knowing this, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has changed their guidelines for screen time.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 30 Edition)

Doug Levin

I’m looking forward to stepping away from the office and spending time with family and friends one last time before the 2017-18 school year gets underway in earnest. As such, expect an abbreviated (TBD) publishing schedule for ‘A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News’ in August. Vulnerabilities happen.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare. ” (For what it’s worth, Kleiner Perkins made just one major investment in education in 2017, participating in Coursera’s $64 million round this summer. She also noted the growth of markets in China and in India.

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Lingering Fears from Outdated Screen Time Recommendations Stunt Parent Buy-In

Edsurge

The AAP’s guidelines from 2002 stated that there should be no media use for children under the age of two, that 2- to 5-year olds should be extremely limited in media consumption and that children over five should consume no more than two hours of media per day.