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K–12 Departments Work Collaboratively to Support New Pedagogies

EdTech Magazine

A 2017 Medium post from the Office of Educational Technology laments the lack of clarity about the term “personalized learning”: “The lack of a consistent definition and language for a relatively complex idea has hampered both understanding and effective ­implementation,” the article states.

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Teacher shortages bring to mind the saying ‘necessity is the mother of invention’

eSchool News

This article originally appeared on the Clayton Christensen Institute’s blog and is reposted here with permission. As reporter Linda Jacobson noted in the article, online learning has long been used in schools for subjects they couldn’t otherwise offer.

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When to Teach Online Classes Live and When to Let Students Learn on Demand

Edsurge

Asynchronous Can Still Be Interactive If instructors get creative, they can build personalized interactions into asynchronous teaching, argues Michelle Eaton, director of virtual and blended learning for a school district in Indianapolis.

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K-12 Educators and Administrators: Share Your Ed-tech Pilot Approach

Digital Promise

Many of our teachers have been using the free version of a literacy platform that uses non-fiction articles to engage students in age-appropriate, differentiated content. Manager of Blended Learning. ” John Rice. District of Columbia Public Schools. It seems like it’s really built for high school students.

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