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What’s edtech got to do with growth mindset?

Neo LMS

It was the first week of fifth grade and I was so ready to learn History. I had spent the previous summer poring over an Ancient Egypt book so it had to become my favorite subject. It’s no longer what happens in the learning environment, but what happens when edtech comes into the mix and how we can enrich that environment.

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15 Edtech items to include in your back-to-school checklist for teachers

Neo LMS

Students and parents learn from the syllabus what to expect from your class and you can give them more details about what you’ll include in your lessons. Add competencies for each class . Moreover, when the competencies are set, students can self-monitor their learning, see their quiz results, and check their progress.

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OPINION: The time has come to stop assigning letter and number grades

The Hechinger Report

Still, educators tend to be preconditioned to assign grades — not necessarily because we believe they best reflect our assessments of student learning and development but because our grading practices are what we are used to. Related: Why a high-performing district is changing everything with competency-based learning.

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After Transforming a College With Online Offerings, a President Steps Down to Tackle AI

Edsurge

But LeBlanc, who was enthusiastic about technology and had worked in edtech, made a bet that was unusual at the time: He decided to grow the university’s online offerings. That growth ended up exploding as the acceptance of online learning grew, then got an unexpected boost from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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OPINION: Why we need a new pedagogy for our post-Covid future

The Hechinger Report

To their profound credit, well-intentioned teachers have moved mountains to cultivate online learning platforms devoted to teaching the skills they otherwise would have taught in their classrooms. If we determine that they aren’t, can we chart a pedagogical future that is project-based, learner-driven and community-oriented?

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When to Teach Online Classes Live and When to Let Students Learn on Demand

Edsurge

Asynchronous Can Still Be Interactive If instructors get creative, they can build personalized interactions into asynchronous teaching, argues Michelle Eaton, director of virtual and blended learning for a school district in Indianapolis. In a 2010 meta-analysis of online-learning research compiled by the U.S.

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New, MIT-based program proposes transforming physicists, engineers into teachers

The Hechinger Report

This gives them experience with a process, known as competency-based learning, that a growing number of primary and secondary schools where they’ll eventually teach are beginning to adopt. The International Association for K-12 Online Learning urged in December that competency-based learning be expanded.