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Can Competency-Based Education Demonstrate Mastery Across a Lifetime? #DLNchat

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The Twitter chat started by first defining the buzzwords at the center of our discussion. As Andersen said, “It would help everyone if we all subscribe to a common core of competencies and associated learning objectives.” Our guest pointed to a five-page definition of CBE. Or become recognized by employers?

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30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom

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But as successive refinements improve them to the point that they start to steal customers, they may end up reshaping entire industries: classified ads (Craigslist), long distance calls (Skype), record stores (iTunes), research libraries (Google), local stores (eBay), taxis (Uber) and newspapers (Twitter).” Rising cost of universities.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Chalkbeat : “They rejected multi-state Common Core exams. It was one of two social media messages – the other a Twitter photo of Tunsil smoking marijuana through a gas mark – that were posted during the NFL draft. ” Oregon students will soon be sitting more standardized tests – wheee!

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised.

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