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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

The Hechinger Report

to learn how to make the shift from traditional time-based systems … towards one that is truly organized around the learner.”. There’s also little evidence that personalized learning improves student learning, in part because so many different approaches are used.

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Can “playful assessments” tell us whether maker education works?

The Hechinger Report

But what else was she learning in this maker space? With scarcely a month left in the school year, why was it worth spending time making videos rather than covering the next academic standard? But how to gauge that progress is still an open question for the researchers and their classroom collaborators.

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What Makes Professional Development Work?

edWeb.net

Professional development defined as one-hit wonders with hour-long speaker presentations and all-day workshops leaves teachers unequipped to implement best practices and personalized learning opportunities for their students. Technology and Professional Development. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by 2gnoMe.

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This STEM-focused district hands out paychecks along with report cards

The Hechinger Report

In the past, student work has ranged from the cutting edge to the routine, from creating a measuring tool that uses lasers to estimate the length of great white sharks to teaching officials in Longmont, the district’s main city, how to better use smartphones in their jobs.

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Opening the doors to elite public schools

The Hechinger Report

The new policy stands to degrade academic standards and exclude students based on race, she argued, calling it “a backdoor attempt to dismantle the exam school system altogether.” ” “We believe there is no tension between diversity and academic excellence,” he said. In January, the Rev.

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