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

Edsurge

Our guest pointed to a five-page definition of CBE. Not everyone in the #DLNchat community was as enthusiastic about the potential of adaptive learning for CBE. Jeff Grann said, “Adaptive may help tweak, but it’s important to start with building high quality CBE learning experiences that prioritize gains in student learning.”

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What Education Technology Could Look Like Over the Next Five Years

MindShift

The value in “personalized learning” lies in student autonomy and individualized instruction and support , not in the control and compliance model required to achieve high test scores. If this more radical and child-centered definition of “personalized” is to be achieved, the role teachers play also need reimagining.

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WHAT’S NEW

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CHALK AND WIRE MYMANTL ( www.mymantl.com ) Chalk & Wire announced that its learning recognition network, MyMantl, is now fully available for students, educators, employees and employers. Stride guides students to practice where they need it most by providing engaging content that motivates students toward mastery using games as rewards.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.” And everyone clicks and rages and snipes all over again.

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