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OPINION: Post pandemic, it’s time for a bold overhaul of U.S. public education, starting now

The Hechinger Report

After unprecedented learning loss, growing disparities in educational outcomes and overall public dissatisfaction, the time is right for an education overhaul. A decade ago, barely half of all states had policies in place that allowed for personalized, competency-based learning. We should ask no less of ourselves.

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How One High School is Helping Students Craft Eportfolios People Will Actually Read

Edsurge

Gottfried wanted a platform that was accessible, shareable, allowed her students to update their work regularly and helped them build their digital brand with followers. On the platform, students were expected to do more than document what they learned; she wanted them to actively consider their audience when writing posts.

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Activate Instruction migrates content to Gooru

eSchool News

As the public education system evolves toward supporting students’ personalized needs, online learning tools have emerged that allow teachers to customize instruction. Gooru’s enhanced, free K-12 content will support a variety of innovative educational models and facilitate the growth of competency-based learning.”.

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Digital Age Skills for Educators

Educator Innovator

In the 21st century, learning can take place anytime, anywhere, at any pace, and with the learner at the center. Their mission is to provide people with open access to the skills and know-how needed to use the web to improve their lives, careers, and organizations. This is not new to the folks at Mozilla.

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Proponents of Competency-Based Education Push to Spur Adoption — Amid Challenges

Edsurge

Look for achievable steps that point toward large-scale change to a competency-based system. The glossy document was released here at the Competency-Based Education Network’s annual conference, where it was handed out to attendees and informed the themes of many sessions.

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Making College A Powerful Experience For the Most Marginalized

MindShift

Childcare, work, documentation status, and the many “hoops” students have to jump through to get a college degree are often some of the biggest barriers. They document work experiences related to school, post writings and the readings, and upload everything to an online platform. COMPETENCY BASED LEARNING.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.) Despite a few anecdotes, they’re really not.).

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