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Competencies vs. Skills

A Principal's Reflections

Thus, many educators, including myself, now refer to these as essential skills. After looking at what I had on the slide and listening to my analysis, she commented that I was (or should be) referencing and explaining competencies, not just skills, which students will need. This really got me thinking.

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5 critical considerations for CBE and CBL implementation

eSchool News

Stakeholders who determine the value to credentials and competencies are more concerned with competency-based learning (CBL), which is a broader concept than CBE. Competencies are the starting point for defining learning pathways that lead to well-defined achievements.

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It’s Time For Personalized Learning In Education

TeachThought - Learn better.

First, everyone has a different aptitude—or what cognitive scientists refer to as “working memory” capacity, meaning the ability to absorb and work actively with a given amount of information from a variety of sources, including visual and auditory. Will competency-based learning exacerbate some gaps?

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

Users can also use the NEO advanced features such as automation, gamification, learning paths, and competency-based learning directly from the Windows App. A new historical analysis genre and new historical analysis prompts will be available in December 2017 and more will be released in 2018.

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Has New Hampshire found the secret to online education that works?

The Hechinger Report

She was referring to her husband, Fred, who was a poor student and graduated 206th out of 212 in his high school class. A single course, such as algebra, contains several competencies, which blend some core knowledge, such as understanding linear equations, with broader skills like applied analysis or problem-solving.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Michael Feldstein argued that the “meaninglessness” of Purdue’s claims were important for the ed-tech community to grapple with, in no small part because many other learning analytics systems had been modeled on the Course Signals work. CZI took over the engineering of the learning management system from Facebook in 2017.).

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