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Curriculum Design is Emotional Work—This Teacher Makes It Easier

Edsurge

Despite the immense amount of work involved, my colleagues and I fine-tuned our curriculum every year based on student skill gaps and results from formative assessments. They could easily access a library of lessons and assessments I’d created from scratch, or use.

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What Does a School Need to Enable Learning Based on Student Competency?

MindShift

Three main ways schools are attempting this work are through technology use, an emphasis on personalizing learning and moving toward a mastery-based or competency-based evaluation system. The report defines personalized learning as “tailor[ing] learning to students’ strengths, needs, interests and experiences.”

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Why a K-12 Operating System is the Next Step in the Evolution of Edtech

Edsurge

Now, in addition to importing data from IXL, Khan Academy, and an adaptive learning program called Carnegie Learning , I had to transfer the achievement data from my gradebook into another system. Classrooms gain access to a comprehensive library of standards-aligned resources and curriculum development tools.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

Users can also use the NEO advanced features such as automation, gamification, learning paths, and competency-based learning directly from the Windows App. who are interested in establishing a makerspace in their libraries. These solutions will be offered to school librarians in the U.S.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

And like so many products on this list, 3D printing was hailed as a revolution in education, and schools were encouraged to reorient libraries and shop classes towards “maker spaces” which would give students opportunities to print their plastic designs. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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