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

Digital Promise

The virtual environment supported students with ADHD who might need to move around while learning. It enabled students with autism to ask and answer questions in the chat, if it was more comfortable, and to work with students in smaller groups in breakout rooms. Nick Williams, CTO, Bartholomew School District, Indiana.

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Why should schools consider adaptive learning

Neo LMS

I have two words for you: adaptive learning. In this type of learning, every answer provided and every action taken by the student is tracked, stored and analyzed. Depending on how long it takes for me to apprehend the knowledge, I will be designated a tutor or be added to a group to get help or practice my pronunciation.

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Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow

Edsurge

In its statement, the publisher said Smart Sparrow’s technology will support its capabilities in adaptive learning and add more interactive and immersive features for its digital books. student and teaching assistant, began building his own homegrown adaptive tutoring technologies. At least that’s what it looks like.”

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10 Ideas for Primary ELA Stations

A Principal's Reflections

At the same time, the teacher can pull small groups for targeted instruction or support. Phonics and Word Families Station : Students learn to build phonemic awareness and understand word families. They can use sorting games where students group words by their beginning sounds or word family endings.

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Inclusion and Co-Teaching in the Personalized Classroom

A Principal's Reflections

The 6th-grade math teacher was seen at a large table, where she used adaptive tool data to pull a group of learners for targeted instruction. While she actively taught, the rest of the class was seen working at their own pace, either independently or in small groups.

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Blending with the Station Rotation Model

A Principal's Reflections

Following a short period of direct instruction with the entire class, the teacher breaks students into groups using data where the class engages in a series of activities during a set period of time. It is essential to use a good data source for groupings so the learners get the most out of the targeted instruction or support rotation.

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Adaptive literacy? 3 must-knows for teachers and admin about adaptive learning

eSchool News

What should educators and administrators know about adaptive learning? In “ Adaptive Literacy Learning 101 ,” presenters reviewed findings from Tech & Learning’s 2017 survey on adaptive learning and highlighted key points that everyone should know. Value is Abundant.