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Giving Students Flexibility With Competency-Based Education

Digital Promise

I walked in a 4 th grade class and noticed that each student had an iPad. He showed me the detailed rubric he was given, which laid out the competencies he needed to master, as well as the Excel spreadsheet he was creating to map out his budget for the party.

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

Edsurge

Today’s most hyped phrase, personalized learning, is nearing Gartner’s peak of inflated expectations among the chattering class of education thought leaders and philanthropists. What is personalized learning? Slope of Enlightenment: Competency-Based Learning. Competency-based learning is one of these.

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Why a K-12 Operating System is the Next Step in the Evolution of Edtech

Edsurge

The following year, I wanted to ensure that when students did come to class, they could participate and engage—or at the very minimum—access the content via a class set of iPads. I generated logins for my students and started “blending” instruction using the free content from these publishers.

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