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K–12 Departments Work Collaboratively to Support New Pedagogies

EdTech Magazine

The tricky part is how to actually go about doing those things, and convincing everyone around you that they should be striving for that approach as well. How do you get that done? Let’s start with what personalized learning is — or should be — and go from there. Enter the silos.

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Finding ‘Personalized Learning’ and Other Edtech Buzzwords on the Gartner Hype Cycle

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What we should be exploring, in other words, is not how well an environment personalizes along the dimensions of our preconceived notions of what is good, but what gets what results. Slope of Enlightenment: Competency-Based Learning. Competency-based learning is one of these. Deeper Learning.

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Giving Students Flexibility With Competency-Based Education

Digital Promise

But one question left unanswered is how does competency-based education seamlessly mix or align in an environment where students are completing personalized lessons using a learning management system (LMS)? This is an exciting concept, and one that I plan on implementing at Wheatley in the spring.

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Why Middle Schoolers Thrive in a Self-Paced Classroom

Edsurge

It turns out young adolescents are extremely capable of engaging in self-paced, blended learning. Similar to the flipped classroom, the model is an approach based on blended learning, self-paced instruction, and mastery-based grading. Here’s how we do this in our own sixth grade classrooms.

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Four Ways to Redefine Parent Teacher Conferences—With a Little Help from Ironman

Edsurge

I most definitely didn’t plan a project to have something like the superhero project culminate before every parent-teacher conference—that would feel forced. How to integrate social emotional learning —plus a guide to SEL. How to implement blended learning —plus a guide to blended learning.

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How 2Revolutions is Helping Schools, Districts, and States Support Future of Learning Models

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Discover The purpose of the discover phase of this project was to help leaders and educators from the Colorado Department of Education and the Colorado Education Initiative develop an understanding of competency-based learning. Colorado eventually adopted the InspirED platform, calling it Colorado ConnectEd.

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Competency-Based Education: A Reading Journey

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

This entry is an attempt to compile a useful -- but by no means exhaustive -- list of CBE related books that I personally feel have been either extremely illuminating in pragmatic ways (detailed models, insightful anecdotes, clear "how to's") or it inspired me to stay the course. Often the same book did both! Stack and Jonathan G.