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Giving Students Flexibility With Competency-Based Education

Digital Promise

I wanted to see teachers guiding their students through individualized learning, units that are unique and cater to the multiple learning styles, and technology-rich classrooms that aided in the whole competency-based approach to learning.

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How One University is Working to ‘Humanize’ Online Teaching

Edsurge

Michelle Pacansky-Brock: I had been teaching in the California Community Colleges System and very much embraced the student-centeredness of teaching and learning in that environment. I was teaching in Blackboard, teaching art history and art appreciation in a text-centered environment. That's part of learning too.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

BLACKBOARD ALLY ( www.blackboard.com ) Blackboard announced that Blackboard Ally is now available for multiple learning management systems used by K-12 school districts. Among the new updates includes Blackboard Gradebook integration.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. They’re distracted.

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