Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

Because trying unfamiliar tools and strategies where children are involved and the odds are uncertain can feel risky and unwise. From this base, Chesapeake High School, for example, is experimenting with blended learning throughout the school and allowing teachers more freedom to innovate.

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Blended Learning Competency Based Learning Elementary Course 111

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Tool: Education Elements Puts It All in One Place. It is a project management tool to bring the complete plan into one place. Download and examine Ed Elements’ three models for elementary schools and its three models for secondary schools. The Ed Elements consultants help craft plans that work with their users’ needs and budgets.

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Education Elements Competency Based Learning Personalized Learning Blended Learning 60

Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

Do you think others could learn from the way you conduct ed-tech pilots to inform product decisions? Digital Promise is crowdsourcing best practices for piloting learning technology tools, and we want to hear from you! So, do you think you have a pilot approach others could learn from? Manager of Blended Learning.

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Robotics Education Competency Based Learning Program Evaluation 120

Edsurge

MAY 8, 2017

Talk about what's being learned, not what's missing. Despite emerging digital communication tools that seek to bring parents and teachers closer, the structure of parent-teacher conferences largely remains the same. Do the research on tools that can minimize the information asymmetry between teachers and learners.

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Conference Blended Learning Data Accessibility 137

eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2016

The goal of the event was to focus on the practical elements of blended and personalized learning by surfacing the tactics that practitioners were deploying in the trenches. Innovators stressed that without effective change management, the best technology tools and the most elegant personalized learning models will come up short.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

One of the first curricular tools I built to share—on the first day of school—was a public, student-friendly gradebook on Google Sheets. It felt like every tool I used in the classroom was inherently designed to work in isolation. It felt like every tool I used in the classroom was inherently designed to work in isolation.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 27, 2015

Explaining an idea verbally, especially if being done to clarify a context or history of circumstance–can be a powerful tool if used expertly. If you look at this list as a whole, it’s clear education is either changing, or has a slew of tools it’s ignoring in not changing. Learning Models. HyFlex Learning.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Online learning offers educators access to a wealth of learning data to guide their teaching and assessment of student performance. Immediate data visualization is a powerful tool that enables truly personalized interaction and differentiated instruction.

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Dropout Competency Based Learning Differentiated Instruction Online Learning 60

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

A growing number of states and local communities are examining how to shift to student-centered, competency-based learning systems. Thus far we have used off the shelf, fairly simple tools for our prototypes. Most importantly, the advocates work directly in partnership with learners and their families, not for the system.

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System Competency Based Learning Education Assessment 60

MindShift

MARCH 25, 2015

A CompetencyWorks report, “Maximizing Competency Education and Blended Learning: Insights from Experts,” looks at ways that the movement for personalization dovetails with blended learning and competency-based learning to achieve a more student-centered approach to school.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

Remember: Students are always at different places in their learning. I implemented blended learning last year and my students are now able to advance upon mastery.” When people suggest that educational software is synonymous with competency education, then I know they don’t get it.

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Software System Blended Learning Competency Based Learning 89

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2022

After nearly two decades of teaching, leading, researching and writing—all with a focus on personalized learning—Smith is taking another step forward in his life’s mission to better understand students and help them learn. That step is McGraw Hill Plus , a new tool scheduled to be released this spring.

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Personalized Learning Learning Competency Based Learning Data 156