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Today’s Innovations are Tomorrow’s Practices: Adapting Learning to Meet Students

Digital Promise

Districts are thinking quite differently about parent engagement—moving beyond the parent-teacher meetings to creating channels for parents to understand the pacing of instruction and student progress in real time. Jean Tower, Director of Media and Digital Learning at Needham Public Schools, Massachusetts.

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Meet NEO at FETC 2022!

Neo LMS

It’s also a great opportunity to meet fellow online learning enthusiasts, exchange ideas, and learn from the experts. Meet NEO at FETC 2022! We’re excited to meet you at Booth #602 , where each day we’ll be ready to offer live demos and discuss edtech for K-12 and Higher Ed. The post Meet NEO at FETC 2022!

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Unlocking the Spectrum of Learning: The Multi-Faceted Magic of Personalization

A Principal's Reflections

It is also important to point out the following: You don’t need technology to personalize learning. Putting all kids on a device simultaneously and having them watch a video or work on an adaptive learning tool is not personalization. There is not one best or right way to personalize.

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K–12 Departments Work Collaboratively to Support New Pedagogies

EdTech Magazine

A 2017 Medium post from the Office of Educational Technology laments the lack of clarity about the term “personalized learning”: “The lack of a consistent definition and language for a relatively complex idea has hampered both understanding and effective ­implementation,” the article states. K–12 Departments Must Find Common Ground.

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Curriculum Design is Emotional Work—This Teacher Makes It Easier

Edsurge

competency-based (a.k.a. standards-based) school for at-risk youth, pre-packaged curriculum and assessments offered very little flexibility for personalization or modification. The content was prescriptive and standardized, which meant taking it apart to meet student needs sometimes took longer than just making it myself.

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

MindShift

Many teachers have long been frustrated with static, canned curriculum that doesn’t seem connected to kids’ lives, and testing requirements that drive the learning experience. The report defines personalized learning as “tailor[ing] learning to students’ strengths, needs, interests and experiences.”

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies has announced it is allowing any SQL-based business intelligence tool, such as Tableau and Jaspersoft, to access data from its modern, student information system and learning management system. Software & Online ALMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

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