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

Edsurge

The Twitter chat started by first defining the buzzwords at the center of our discussion. Not everyone in the #DLNchat community was as enthusiastic about the potential of adaptive learning for CBE. The conversation was guided by our special guest Executive Director of C-BEN (Competency-Based Education Network), Charla Long.

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Ed Tech News, a New Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The bill will be a massive revisions to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. iOS 5 contains a number of new features, including better notifications, wireless syncing, and Twitter integration. Lesson plans can be shared via LearnBoost, but also via Twitter or Facebook and can be embedded on websites and/or blogs.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised.

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