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How an LMS Can Solve Professional Learning's Challenges—and Keep Master Teachers Engaged

Edsurge

Ken Dirkin Dirkin is the Director of Online Professional Learning at Michigan Virtual , a nonprofit provider of digital learning solutions for the state’s K-12 schools. He’s been involved with cutting-edge educational technology, including virtual worlds, mobile applications, new media, and the web, for more than 15 years.

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Student Portfolios with Google Sites – SULS091

Shake Up Learning

Showcase portfolios work especially well as summative assessments at the end of a grading cycle or semester. Student Learning Portfolio (Growth over Time). As outlined by the Institute for Personalized Learning , a learner profile contains demographic and academic information. Get Mike’s Pear Deck How-To Handbook.

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Leveling Up Language Learners’ 21st-Century Skills with Minecraft

Edsurge

This involves navigating search engines, identifying key ideas, evaluating and assessing the quality of information and adapting it to the player’s own unique game world context. Many students go on to create such guides themselves, learning how to edit wikis and take screenshots, or capture, narrate and edit in-game footage in the process.

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Learning Analytics 2018 – An updated perspective

IAD Learning

Learning analytics has been a hot topic for a while in the education industry. Not by chance, learning analytics and all its related technologies (measuring learning, artificial intelligence, adaptive learning, personalized learning, etc.) Limit your scope and duration.

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Five Best Practices Teachers Can Learn from Dungeon Masters

MindShift

“When I finally started and let go of control and many of the anticipated outcomes, I quickly realized how the students can really drive the learning in a powerful and fun way,” said Steve Isaacs, who offers his middle-school game design students branching quests that allow them to choose personal learning paths.

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The Histories of Personalized Learning

Hack Education

I want us to think about the ways in which the history of learning – how we tell that story – shapes the future of learning, and how the history of technology (education technology and otherwise) – and how we tell that story – shapes the future of technology. They’re not meant to.