eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2015

A coordinated, intentional program of blended learning is changing teaching and learning in the Nation’s capital. Blended and personalized learning were two topics on the rise this year. Part of their success has hinged on the way teachers are using blended learning in the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

With myriad definitions of personalized learning and little agreement on which one is the best, leaders and teachers struggle to know if they are doing personalized learning “right.”. The final element is data driven decisions that inform instructional decisions and groupings.

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The challenge is teaching students how to take these disparate pieces of information and skills, analyze data to make complex decisions, and innovate when a solution is not apparent for a problem. One approach that may offer that reasonable next step in embedding personalized learning into practice is blended learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2018

Personalized and blended learning pathways were proclaimed to be the future of education. Wikipedia defines IoT as a network of physical devices, vehicles, home appliances and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and connectivity which enables these objects to connect and exchange data.

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The challenge is teaching students how to take these disparate pieces of information and skills, analyze data to make complex decisions, and innovate when a solution is not apparent for a problem. One approach that may offer that reasonable next step in embedding personalized learning into practice is blended learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 26, 2020

As a result, many educational entities have embraced a shift to a more personalized approach to learning. While this is admirable, what I have experienced firsthand is a lack of a uniform vision and plan or collective understanding as to what it means to personalize learning.

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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. The power of personalized learning, understood in this way, is intuitive. What he sees might surprise.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

Mary Earick, project director for NG2, says the purpose of the program is to create more flexible learning pathways for students through “competency-based multiage schooling,” which allows students to move on to new objectives only after mastering others. “[NG2] NG2] tackles long-standing educational barriers to personalized learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

Research note: As Wall (2021) indicates, there is a definite connection between trauma and student behavior as well as student learning. You’ll explore emotional intelligence models and various methods for collecting data, so you’ll be equipped to decide which instruments are right for your school or district to measure SEL growth.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

“We do not believe that there is yet definitive proof that personalized learning works better than other models.”­. — All That We’ve Learned: Five Years of Working on Personalized Learning. First the word was blended learning, before it was hybrid, and now it’s personalized learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2018

I joke that we do macro and micro personalization. The 300 courses I mentioned are personalized in the sense that there’s probably a course in there that fits your needs. What problems does using an LMS for professional learning solve? What cultural shifts are driving change in professional learning offerings?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

The Altus network relies on a self-paced, independent study program and a personalized, blended learning model they’ve built up over a quarter century. Students spend 80 percent of their time learning from home. Most do the majority of their work online, though some choose to learn with a standard textbook.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

Blended learning. Personalized learning. Competency- and project-based learning. Skeptics say that there is very little data to support the idea that these new models are better than traditional models. But the fact that there is little data should not be a proof-point that these models don’t work.

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EdTechTeam

MARCH 5, 2021

Evidence of the need for these 4 C’s is embedded in Universal Design for Learning (UDL). To create truly student centered, personalized learning opportunities, teachers must design lessons with intention. This activity definitely highlights the glows and areas for growth in lesson design. Critical Thinking.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

A great deal of initial research exists about blended learning techniques such as game-based learning, but adoption has stalled because of a lack of scalable, practical techniques that have also proven effective. I would definitely use games like these in a classroom again,” she says. In every district throughout the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

But after a year-long, data-driven, deep dive into how people understand and apply the learning approaches variously called personalized learning, individualized instruction and differentiation, we’re intimately familiar with Shakespeare’s conundrum. What’s in a name? SNAPSHOT: What Is a Tagging Schema? What It Is.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In addition to new definitions, models, and strategies, citations and references will also be added periodically, as will updates, corrections, edits, and revisions. Blended Learning. Blended learning is a learning model that combines digital and face-to-face learning experiences. ” (1).

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MindShift

JUNE 29, 2015

Blended Learning: Blended learning, or the use of technology alongside in-person instruction from a teacher, has been included in the NMC Horizons report before. If this more radical and child-centered definition of “personalized” is to be achieved, the role teachers play also need reimagining.

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Edsurge

JULY 4, 2017

From “blended learning” to digital worksheets, below are a collection of comments from ten educators about their biggest edtech pet peeves. We're always going to be lifelong learners, so let's leave the “development” behind because we developed enough—let's start learning. Jennie Magiera Jennie Magiera: Blended learning.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2016

The National Education Policy Center (NEPC) released a report last week warning that online and blended learning schools are struggling. Regarding blended learning in particular, the report used a deeply flawed methodology to count and evaluate the blended schools nationwide. Do lectures work?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik. FRAMINGHAM, Mass.

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MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2021

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

We definitely do try to go that extra step to make those children feel just as comfortable and just as supported and let them know, ‘You can be successful even if you don’t have the same stuff at home that another child has,’” Parker says. You take a personal interest,” says Keith. “It Connecting Every Student to Personalized Learning.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

“We definitely do try to go that extra step to make those children feel just as comfortable and just as supported and let them know, ‘You can be successful even if you don’t have the same stuff at home that another child has,’” Parker says. You take a personal interest,” says Keith.

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Linways Technologies

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The student begins from the most basic level; remembering what has been taught, onto the higher levels as learning progresses. Personalized Learning A great classroom to learn often displays the following characteristics: The student asks more questions , Questions are the product of curiosity and they signifies participation.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

This whole personalized learning approach is really where we’re moving. 30-second elevator pitch for the Learning Journey model. Mark: I’d probably start by asking them, “What’s the number one thing they want to change about student learning in their school district?”. Mistake in Personalizing Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2017

SAN FRANCISCO — Erin Mote is a technologist and hands-on middle school principal with a strong belief in the power of personalized learning. Betheny Gross, who is leading a study of personalized learning at the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) in Seattle. Does it work? We’ve got very little to go on.’’.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

So it’s really a wonder that we consider the definition of success for personalized learning programs to be so simple. The true magic of personalized learning lies in the potential to increase noncognitive factors of success. In the words of the cast of Rent, how do you measure a life?

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Keep that in mind when you see Course Report’s data touted, cheerleading the coding bootcamp trend.). The company runs “blended learning” schools in South Africa. You’re definitely not making school even more awful. Imagine Learning has acquired Think Through Learning.

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