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Where Are You on Your Personalized Learning Journey?

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This past week, we traveled to the Golden, Colorado to attend the Conference of Online and Blended Learning (COBL), put on by the iLearn Collaborative. This allows those teachers connected to a particular book or unit the freedom to teach something they love while also sticking to the competency-based model.

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How Former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s iZone Went from ‘Cool’ to Cold

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Exactly how many schools are actively engaged in iZone projects is unclear: The NYCDOE press office disclosed that 50 schools abandoned the iZone’s iLearn program between 2015 and 2016 to develop their own blended and online learning materials or to use outside resources including Google Classroom, Schoology, or Canvas.

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Get Qurious: Interactive and Digital Play Kit

iLearn Technology

In the box students will find story cards, masks, a puzzle, and a sticker book. The reusable stickers in the sticker book let kids create their own version of the Three Little Pigs. They can also practice re-mixing the story using the re-usable sticker book and app. This kit is better billed as a blended learning play kit.

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Using Technology to Differentiate Instruction

iLearn Technology

link] Students can create stories and turn them into a book. link] A storybook site that celebrates reading and books. These learners learn best visually and organize their thinking spatially. Kelly Tenkely is the founder and administrator of blended learning school, Anastasis Academy in Colorado. Visual-Spatial.

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Magik Play: A beautiful blend of digital and physical play

iLearn Technology

The Magik Play is a beautiful blend of digital and physical. What it is: Magik Play sent me a Starter Kit to review, and boy am I glad they did! Students download an app on their iPad and use wooden blocks that interact with the iPad screen to build structures that interact with the illustrations on the app.

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