EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

As personalized learning continues to gain momentum across the U.S., more states, districts and schools are moving toward a competency-based education system that focuses on individualized learning and classroom equity. Students advance upon demonstrated mastery, not based on time.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2023

At the height of COVID-19, many schools weren’t able to undertake the full process of selecting and implementing a learning management system (LMS), even if they knew that this step would be foundational to achieving their vision for student learning. The COVID-19 pandemic offers an apt example of this mentality.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

It’s no longer what happens in the learning environment, but what happens when edtech comes into the mix and how we can enrich that environment. Here are a few ideas on using edtech to promote growth mindset: Showing progress through competency-based learning. Read more: The PROs and CONs of competency-based learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

After unprecedented learning loss, growing disparities in educational outcomes and overall public dissatisfaction, the time is right for an education overhaul. Yet inflexibility is a hallmark of our current education system, apparent in our failure to meet the diverse learning needs of all our children.

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Education Elements

AUGUST 19, 2015

Today we have access to more instructional strategies, procedures, and technologies than ever before.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

As a flurry of schools have shifted to a pass-fail grading system for the current semester, some institutions have balked at the prospect of accepting these non-letter grades. To help see why, consider that traditional colleges and universities are locked into a system that pays them by the credit hour. Dude, Where’s My Credit?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Aligning their efforts with the New York State Computer Science and Digital Fluency Standards and the Profile of a North Salem Graduate , the district has developed a Computational Thinking Pathway, which provides CT and CS learning opportunities for all students.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 25, 2018

As K–12 institutions digitally progress, slow data sharing between parents, teachers and administrators is leaving all players increasingly frustrated as they are forced to wait for important information sent through what is quickly becoming an outdated system. This is not just a hypothetical example.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

But what about CEO and founder Sal Khan’s broader goal of changing the education system, by basing it more on mastery learning, not grades? We need integration with our rostering systems. So the system will know, okay, student A is part of teacher B's classroom. How is that part going? We need training.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2021

The pandemic amplified an opportunity for school districts to truly enable students to participate in the design of their own learning. Teachers are designers of learning systems. We must continue to build upon the progress and skills built during the pandemic to make personalized, student-driven learning education’s new normal.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

If you’re using an LMS, you may already have tapped into its competency-based learning features. This is a great way to measure students’ learning outcomes and how they’re mastering new subjects and notions. NEO Guide: Competency-based learning. Read more: Teacher tricks: Grading & assessment.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 21, 2022

That’s why the education system needs to understand that children are not born with these skills. In this article, we’ll discuss executive functioning skills and their importance as well as ways to teach them with the help of your learning management system (LMS). What are the most important executive functioning skills?

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 9, 2022

If you teach using a learning management system (LMS) you most likely add all your classes to the platform. Having a welcome section that introduces your class will motivate them to access the content you have prepared. Competency-based learning helps you track student progress and identify learning gaps.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The learning resources provide comprehensive instruction with practice materials to reinforce the lessons and help students achieve optimal outcomes. The complete multimedia learning system is designed as a financial competencies-based learning resource for educators.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Kids are helped along by access to take-home devices and individualized learning plans that allow them to progress through class material at their own speed. While the pandemic still took its toll, adapting to online learning was smoother in Lindsay due to its preexisting infrastructure and history of adaptation.

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Neo LMS

MAY 21, 2019

Accessibility. Parents should also receive information about the accounts that their children will be using, such as Microsoft 365 to log in to the school system. Giving them the how, when and why will make parents actually excited to learn more about edtech and how they themselves can use it to help their children succeed.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2022

What should come next is an examination of how schools can more deeply and deliberately harness technology to make high-quality learning accessible to every learner, even in the wake of a crisis. That means a digital transformation, with three key levers for change: in the classroom, in schools and at the systems level.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

In the summer of 2016, a community of educators, research design partners, and over 150 teens and young adults in Colorado engaged in a bold experiment to rethink how quality and impact might be measured in a modernized system of learning. In this relatively small, short-cycle prototype, the lessons we learned were significant.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

And he lays out his latest thoughts about the approach in his new book, “ Students First: Equity, Access and Opportunity in Higher Education. LeBlanc himself is a first generation college student who has long experimented with ideas to help expand access to higher education. Below is an edited sampling of the conversation.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

Competency-Based Learning. Competency-Based Education is something I’m hearing more and more about, which is neither bad nor good, but worth understanding more carefully. There is so much great content already published and accessible, that curation matters as much as creation. One example?

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2021

Hybrid college programs are a symbiosis between online higher ed institutions and nonprofits that provide place-based support systems. The concept is designed to improve college access and degree completion, especially for people who pursue higher education part-time— a group that historically has had low graduation rates.

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Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

I’ve been able to see firsthand how school leaders are implementing exciting innovations that are accelerating high quality teaching and learning—things such as Open Education Resources (OER) , repurposing their spaces , completely overhauling how they assess a child’s growth by shifting to a competency-based learning model , among other things.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 5, 2021

For K-12 students and administrators, TerritoriumCLR ensures the State’s education standards are being followed and the necessary skills are being acquired to provide an accurate measure of competency-based learning. “We are thrilled to bring our Comprehensive Learner Record to U.S.

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eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2020

Across classrooms and campuses, teaching and learning may be the core activity observable to the naked eye. Given the myriad ways in which networks shape access to opportunity, the connections students forge in the course of learning experiences are assets we should be paying attention to. Competency-based learning.

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2022

These resources, sourced from trusted partners, are aligned to state and national standards, and help educators bring the outside world into teaching and learning every day.??. million educators and 45 million students worldwide, and its resources are accessed in over 100 countries and territories.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Higher education innovation” is no different, though instead of flying cars and Mars colonies, what likely comes to mind first are online and competency-based learning platforms, learning management systems, or electronic whiteboards. Here are some highlights from the off-agenda event: 1.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

One critical aspect of personalized learning is too often missing: the use of learning sciences research to best understand and reach each learner. Technology can make this growing body of research accessible and practical so developers and educators can use it to truly support the full diversity of learners.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2022

Especially during the past two years, the interest and necessity of online learning have skyrocketed. . Students have continued pursuing their studies despite prolonged lockdowns through platforms such as learning management systems (LMSs) and video conferencing software. Students can access a wealth of educational resources.

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2016

Blackboard has launched a new K-12 platform for districts and schools that brings together institutions, parents, teachers, and learners in an integrated approach that addresses fundamental requirements for student success including school safety and security, family and community engagement and personalized competency-based learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

These, and other questions around access, financing and degree completion are things that we track. I would say there’s a shift away from the traditional focus on seat-based or hour-based credentialing. Now there’s a growing focus on competency-based learning. The other side is more qualitative.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

In 2011, Rubin and Kern co-authored and released, Designing The Future of Learning, a white paper focused on the transformation taking place in the educational system. The company offered three main types of support that align with its thesis: school design, school model implementation support, and systems design and implementation.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2015

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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

It can mean more work for students and teachers alike, it disadvantages students without strong home internet access and it’s all too easy for teachers to get it wrong, isolating students even further. “A Think of flipped as the operating system of education. Think of flipped as the operating system of education.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Reich is executive director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab and co-founder of EdTechTeacher. Students of all ages who are better off socioeconomically will do better with tech because they already have access to the people and tools that can help them. We do have to get better as a society at building interrupted school systems.” .

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

Little did I know this experience would eventually propel me to help develop a school operating system that tackles technology issues plaguing educators and supports them with more opportunities to offer individualized instruction. Abbas Manjee's standards-based Algebra 1 scope and sequence. Full size image here.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

These activities’ requirements are a video conferencing tool that preferably integrates with your learning management system (LMS) and basic knowledge of creating online lessons, which the LMS already enables teachers to do. 5 More principles of effective online instruction.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2016

And it lacks the enthusiasm—as well as the desire to help kids own and engage in their learning—that defines us as innovative educators. With transformative digital changes happening in classrooms today, basic learning management systems now deliver the answers to most of those well worn questions on parent portals.

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