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

Digital Promise

In-person schooling provided an environment for students with cognitive or physical challenges to be fully supported with personalized instruction, tailored supports, and customized technologies. The pandemic amplified an opportunity for school districts to truly enable students to participate in the design of their own learning.

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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

Last week, Pearson announced it paid $25 million to acquire Smart Sparrow’s technology, in a move that the publisher says will bolster the digital infrastructure that will soon support all its future higher-education offerings. The following year, Knewton was bought in a deal that has become a poster child for education technology hype.

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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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Blending with the Station Rotation Model

A Principal's Reflections

It's one thing to talk about blended learning, but another to actually illustrate the many ways it can be implemented effectively and at scale. Technology is a significant component, but not every activity has to incorporate some type of tool. Blended learning is where students use tech to have control over path, place, and pace.

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Examples of Technologies that Improve Student Learning

eSchool News

From interactive applications to collaborative online platforms, a diverse array of technologies is contributing to more engaging, personalized, and efficient learning environments. These tools not only cater to diverse learning styles but also empower students to explore, create, and collaborate in unprecedented ways.

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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. It’s not all students doing the same thing at the same time, the same way.

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