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Where Are You on Your Personalized Learning Journey?

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This past week, we traveled to the Golden, Colorado to attend the Conference of Online and Blended Learning (COBL), put on by the iLearn Collaborative. Here is what we learned: In his opening keynote, Tom Vander Ark, CEO of Getting Smart, asked the audience, “Why student-centered learning?” A few chimed in.

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How Former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s iZone Went from ‘Cool’ to Cold

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Ten years into his 12-year tenure as mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg and his then education chief, Joel Klein, kicked off a program that they hoped would transform education in the city by making schools “centres of innovation,” Bloomberg told the BBC back in 2011. Today that budget is $3.2

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Using Technology to Differentiate Instruction

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Just as every student grows and develops at different rates, they learn in different ways and at different speeds. Technology makes it possible to pace lessons appropriately for each student’s learning level and can be used to promote learning in the multiple intelligences. These learners learn best through auditory experiences.