Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2023

This 3-part blog series, featuring guest authors from Michigan Virtual , describes the formation of the Learning Continuity Workgroup and how it has supported their edtech procurement and decision-making processes. As schools plan for the future, many administrators are now focusing on their district’s LMS strategy.

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LMS Competency Based Learning Meeting Study 268

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

Competency-Based Learning. Competency-Based Education is something I’m hearing more and more about, which is neither bad nor good, but worth understanding more carefully. MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back.

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Examples MOOC Education Competency Based Learning 141

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2019

He’s started working with more schools and districts—instead of reaching students mainly at home—and has partnered with assessment groups, such as the College Board and, most recently, the NWEA for personalized test prep materials. The latter group administers the MAP Assessment—a test designed to measure growth in reading and math.

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Khan Academy Common Core Assessment EdTech 125

Edsurge

MAY 8, 2017

In my first year teaching math, I built and maintained a complex grade book using Google Sheets. And from what we’ve gathered, teachers are constantly looking to empower students to take control of their learning. Edtech requires student buy-in too. How to integrate social emotional learning —plus a guide to SEL.

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Conference Blended Learning Data Accessibility 129

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Ten years ago two Colorado chemistry teachers unleashed a brash concept on a K-12 landscape where few questioned the age-old formula of lecture, homework, assess, repeat. We feel that everything is changing,” says Sigrún Svafa, a Danish-language teacher in Iceland who has traveled across Europe as a flipped-learning trainer. “I

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Flipped Classroom Khan Academy Learning Video 130

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

One of the first curricular tools I built to share—on the first day of school—was a public, student-friendly gradebook on Google Sheets. Yes, this was before Google Classroom existed!) This competency-based system made sense; if students were chronically absent, holding them accountable to a pacing calendar would prove futile.

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System Khan Academy EdTech LMS 119

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Despite predictions that badges would be the “ new credential ” and that we were looking at a “ Future Full of Badges ,” it’s not clear that digital badges have provided us with a really meaningful way to assess skills or expertise. Google Reader. Google shut down Reader in 2013 , citing declining use of RSS. The TED Talk.

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