A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2018

Emerging technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality, open education resources (OER), coding, and adaptive learning tools are moving more into the mainstream in some schools. From a growth perspective, the Personal Learning Network ( PLN ) concept has dramatically impacted countless educators across the globe.

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 20, 2016

One approach that may offer that reasonable next step in embedding personalized learning into practice is blended learning. It combines online and face-to-face learning “that uses a variety of tools – digital, artistic, problem-solving, etc. These elements can ensure students meet their potential.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 26, 2020

As a result, many educational entities have embraced a shift to a more personalized approach to learning. While this is admirable, what I have experienced firsthand is a lack of a uniform vision and plan or collective understanding as to what it means to personalize learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Expert typing lessons to learn the 10-finger system. Personalized learning: video lessons, suitable games, activities. Smart goals that will adapt to learning speed and needs. Specialized versions to support people with learning disabilities. What are the top software features to consider?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Few technologists have championed the role of big data, personalized learning and many other education buzzwords as vociferously and for as long as Jose Ferreira. He claims to be among the first to coin this approach as “adaptive learning.” What’s all the buzz about adaptive learning really about?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

because teaching is no longer an isolated profession; it’s a dynamic and interconnected field requiring teachers to work collaboratively and build expansive professional and personal learning networks. But culture is an elusive concept and mandates a definition here.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Microschools have definitely made a mark in the K–12 landscape. Their media-rich content presentations engage more than just the “bookish” children in a class; and they beat static textbooks hands down at providing students with basic feedback and adapting learning pathways based on their needs.

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IAD Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Learning analytics has been a hot topic for a while in the education industry. Not by chance, learning analytics and all its related technologies (measuring learning, artificial intelligence, adaptive learning, personalized learning, etc.) Being highly sensitive to ethics is definitely a must.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

But OER advocates like Allen say the definitions should be simple. Allen: It's one of those cases where definitions really matter. So could there be a future where publishers essentially become adaptive learning software companies? Lang: I really think so, yeah.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 30, 2023

If all kids are doing the same thing, the same way, at the same time, the experience is more impersonal than personal. It might work for some, but definitely not all. Learning is a process, not an event. Pacing is an essential element of personalized learning because it allows all students to thrive.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

And while the number of students enrolled in virtual high schools (mostly run by for-profit corporations) has increased exponentially , most of us expect the vast majority of students to happily return to in-person learning after the pandemic ends. Public education is, by its very definition, political.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2014

In this first installment, software engineer Ben Slivka — inspired by science fiction — dreamed of creating truly adaptive learning software. Definitely wary of spoiling his kids with premature wealth. CHAPTER 9: Sci-Fi-Inspired Software. February 2005: Bellevue, Washington. Point accepted. Copyright © 2014.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2016

But without proof, Monroe, vice president of academic innovation and support at Ivy Tech Community College, and her colleagues are searching in the dark to find the right tools that faculty can use to improve learning outcomes for the more than 200,000 students in the Indiana community college system. So much is coming at us,” Monroe says.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 7, 2019

Without further ado, here are the general directions in which the industry of educational technologies is growing: Adaptive learning and learner-centric education. Phill: The first question is about adaptive personalized learning. As far as adaptive learning goes, it is an approach to provide personalized learning.

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MindShift

JUNE 29, 2015

Personalized Learning & Teacher’s Role: Two of the much more difficult challenges facing tech integration are effective strategies for personalizing learning and reevaluating the role of teachers in education. Increasingly, this kind of software is being used to allow each student to move at his or her own pace.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2017

Personalized learning is not a product you can buy — it’s a set of strategies that teachers can implement, sometimes with the help of products that are designed to support those strategies. Personalized learning, adaptive learning, potato, potahto. That’s an argument that my.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik. FRAMINGHAM, Mass.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 24, 2017

The applications of AI in education are incredibly various, and will definitely transform how teachers teach and how students learn today. Delivering adaptive learning. Adaptive learning takes personalized learning on a deeper level. 4 Ways AI will be a great teaching assistant. Final thoughts.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful. If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2018

Schools are increasingly moving toward personalized and adaptive learning programs. Technology plays a leading role in making personalized learning possible. The idea of tailoring teaching styles, materials, and approaches to individual students promises deeper engagement and better academic outcomes.

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Linways Technologies

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The student begins from the most basic level; remembering what has been taught, onto the higher levels as learning progresses. Personalized Learning A great classroom to learn often displays the following characteristics: The student asks more questions , Questions are the product of curiosity and they signifies participation.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

The e-learning trends we identified for this year were: gamification, personalized learning, bite-sized learning, video-based learning, adaptive learning, peer to peer assessment and official degrees for online courses. Which one did you follow? 3 Benefits of using Augmented Reality in education.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 20, 2015

The following infographic/cheat sheet from @goboundless outlines some of the larger scale (eLearning) or controversial (MOOC) movements, as well as those on the rise (1:1, personalized learning), and providing working definitions for each. Blended Learning. Asynchronous Learning. Adaptive Learning.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

MAKERBOT EDUCATORS GUIDEBOOK ( www.makerbot.com ) MakerBot released MakerBot Educators Guidebook, a 200-page definitive guide to 3D printing in the classroom. The integration will enable teachers to use Renaissance Star 360 assessment data to accurately place students into FuelEd’s Stride adaptive learning solution.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2024

Today, we turn our focus to the characteristics of 21st-century learning itself. To kick things off, we’ll start with a clear definition of what 21st-century learning entails, setting the stage for a deeper exploration of its features and implications.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Using digital technology to merely replace analog technology (substitution level, as is the case in using a word editor instead of pen paper), does not result in any transformative change and definitely does not create any pedagogically innovative practices. With innovations come the important skill of adaptability.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

And “personalization” is the underlying promise of the new education software Facebook is itself building. ” I’ll discuss some of the competing definitions of what “personalization” might mean, but in this case, it’s the emphasis on working “at your own pace” on school assignments.

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Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

“ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.” From iNACOL: “ Promising State Policies for Personalized Learning.” . “For online lenders , it’s suddenly touch-and-go,” says Techcrunch. Remember what I’ve said: watch the student loan space.).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. They contend that their schools expand on Montessori’s vision by adding new digital technologies to “personalize learning,” as well as to surveil students.

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