The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Students are not actively involved in shaping their learning journey. That’s why I’m a fan of personalized and competency-based learning environments, in which young people do learn these skills. Students assess their own strengths and weaknesses and set learning goals in partnership with their teachers.
Neo LMS
OCTOBER 8, 2019
In a quest to find solutions to these issues, educators and experts in the field have tried to find an approach to learning that would spark students’ curiosity and motivation, that would engage them more in class and which would provide them with a set of skills necessary to face the 21st century society. Interdisciplinary learning.
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eSchool News
DECEMBER 1, 2015
In a typical Georgia school, kids like Sean Prisk would have to abide by a kind of classroom speed limit, forced to learn at the same pace as others his age. Sean entered Locust Grove Middle School as it was implementing “competency-based” learning, which tailors schooling to each child’s ability.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 21, 2018
Maria Montessori created a curriculum for individualized, competency-based learning a century before any of these terms became buzzwords. Student Advocacy If your preschoolers will be coming from under-served populations, they will benefit from learning self-advocacy (in fact, we all can). I think I get it.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 8, 2019
Marianne Beja had been in education for more than 30 years when she discovered personalized learning. I want to build a community of lifelong learners, and I think personalized learning is the way to do it. It’s about empowering students to communicate, to collaborate, to learn critical thinking skills.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 13, 2021
At first glance, the binders incorporating a whole year of learning at the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester look a little like Candy Land, the beloved game of chance where players navigate a colorful route past delicious landmarks to arrive at a Candy Castle. Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy, KnowledgeWorks.
Edsurge
APRIL 25, 2017
On top of all these challenges, higher education itself is, of course, seeing a variety of potential disrupters emerge, all powered at least in part through online learning. Second, schools could use online learning technologies as a sustaining innovation to improve learning and control costs.
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