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

Digital Promise

While we acknowledge that the transition to teaching virtually was incredibly challenging and exhausting, teachers were able to engage their creative and innovative mindset to design learning experiences for students with learning differences. Jean Tower, Director of Media and Digital Learning at Needham Public Schools, Massachusetts.

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How does an intelligent learning platform help teachers create a truly personalized learning environment?

Neo LMS

Instead of a one-size-fits-all curriculum, a personalized learning environment emphasizes: Each student’s skills and interests . Students’ individual learning goals. Flexible teaching strategies and adaptive learning. Personalized learning puts students at the center of the educational experience.

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K–12 Departments Work Collaboratively to Support New Pedagogies

EdTech Magazine

Indeed, the concept has been conflated with other educational and ­instructional approaches that integrate technology : adaptive learning, blended ­learning , ­competency-based learning and differentiated learning, to name just a few. K–12 Departments Must Find Common Ground. by David Hutchins.

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How colleges are adapting to the future of education

Linways Technologies

Colleges can take up this space too with the resources they have and provide useful industry training to their students with an updated curriculum. These programs are of high demands as there are more people shifting careers and need skills that they haven’t learned in college. Online programs to fill the gaps.

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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. Khan Academy videos coupled with IXL exercises aligned to standards we were learning in class. Eight Resources for Designing Competency-Based Curriculum.

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

MindShift

A CompetencyWorks report, “Maximizing Competency Education and Blended Learning: Insights from Experts,” looks at ways that the movement for personalization dovetails with blended learning and competency-based learning to achieve a more student-centered approach to school.

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

Edsurge

This competency-based system made sense; if students were chronically absent, holding them accountable to a pacing calendar would prove futile. To supplement in-person support offered during class and lunch periods, I published a simple Google site to house my lessons, assessments, and other resources.

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