Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

“Those weekly face-to-face sessions are as much about seeing people’s faces—seeing how tired they look, seeing how engaged they are in the material, seeing all of those kinds of things, and having that back and forth—as it is learning new content together,” she noted. Department of Education.

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Education Elements

JUNE 8, 2016

The Jaquelin Hume Foundation’s mission is to accelerate the implementation of high quality blended/personalized learning in America’s schools. However, with the publication of “Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns,” the conversations changed and the idea began to gain traction.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 4, 2014

When I landed in New Hampshire, I was eager to see competency-based education in action at the secondary level. That’s what competency-based education is about – giving students a voice in how they show what they’ve learned. This is one thing the schools in New Hampshire appear to do well.

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2015

It’s no longer a given that if a child spends twelve years in school, he or she will learn enough to succeed in higher education or a career. If a student fails to learn a skill, he or she accepts that result and moves on to the next topic with the rest of the class. This often means developing life-long habits of learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

When we decided that we’d be giving our sixth-grade students control over their own learning this year, our colleagues told us we were crazy. It turns out young adolescents are extremely capable of engaging in self-paced, blended learning. In fact, the traditional way of teaching was what wasn’t working for us.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

In the summer of 2016, a community of educators, research design partners, and over 150 teens and young adults in Colorado engaged in a bold experiment to rethink how quality and impact might be measured in a modernized system of learning. In this relatively small, short-cycle prototype, the lessons we learned were significant.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

One of the challenges in trying out new learning strategies, including those that embrace technology, is that schools have a tough time finding out which new methods work best – which ones actually help kids learn. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. Read more about Blended Learning.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2016

Earlier this year, the Rhode Island-based Highlander Institute and the Clayton Christensen Institute teamed up to bring together a conference on blended and personalized learning in Providence, R.I. Many initiatives that participants discussed came from a few early innovators trying new approaches within their systems.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

Blended learning in credit-recovery courses and alternative schools—areas where students would often have no brick-and-mortar options—has gotten a bad rap because of questions about the rigor of the online learning experience. The school’s graduating class this summer had an 89.8

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

There are organizations that support different kinds of transformation in schools and after researching and interviewing some of these organizations, we've learned a great deal about what these changes can look like, how schools go about redesigning aspects of their model, and what types of support they need along the way.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 18, 2015

It’s Time For Personalized Learning In Education. In March, Tom Loveless, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, took an outdated swipe at the logic behind moving toward a student-centered learning system. Each child has different learning needs at different times. Some students learn quickly.

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MindShift

MARCH 25, 2015

Many teachers have long been frustrated with static, canned curriculum that doesn’t seem connected to kids’ lives, and testing requirements that drive the learning experience. The report also identifies some key system changes that would support the grass-roots work that has already begun.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

I’m thrilled he wrote it, as I think it holds up a mirror to all of us working in the world of competency-based education about where we can do better. If you don’t understand that the traditional system of education is designed to rank and sort students, then it’s really hard to understand competency-based education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

Little did I know this experience would eventually propel me to help develop a school operating system that tackles technology issues plaguing educators and supports them with more opportunities to offer individualized instruction. At the time, I had no idea this system was called “standards-based grading.”

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

MARCH 10, 2020

As Martin describes examples of what a competency-based report card/transcript may look like (in particular, the work of the Mastery Transcript Consortium ), you realize how crucial it is to have an effective reporting tool of learning, especially for high school. O'Connor expertly leads you through that shift.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

The only goal is to learn the material, sooner or later. They get frequent updates on which skills they’ve learned and which ones they need to acquire. Mastery-based learning, also known as proficiency-based or competency-based learning, is taking hold across the country. There is no failing.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

The New York Times has a new education supplement, called Learning, and The Hechinger Report is collaborating with the Times to produce Bulletin Board, a collection of noteworthy ideas and trends in education that will appear on page 2 of the section, which will come out four times a year. The April issue’s theme was “Nontraditional learning.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

In January 2015, Duggan enrolled in New Hampshire’s self-paced Virtual Learning Academy Charter School (VLACS), joining about 200 full-time middle and high school students and about 10,000 part-timers from brick-and-mortar schools statewide who take VLACS courses a la carte. Related: Rhode Island’s lively experiment in blended learning.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

They want them at school learning. They want them at school learning. In perhaps a reflection of where online learning is headed, both Bagley and Grover now run blended-learning schools that they say offer the best of both worlds — the personalization of an online school with the in-person interactions of a traditional school.).

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