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What Problems Has Edtech Solved, and What New Ones Did It Create?

Edsurge

Nearpod seized an opportunity to help the classroom teacher deliver tailored lessons and assess learning in real time. These devices accelerated the unbundling of content so that students can directly access leveled news articles on Newsela, or their favorite book on Epic. Open digital badges.

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Agency: Important for Students and Educators

A Principal's Reflections

Various pathways to personalize learning and make it more personal are also emphasized. Educators should have more choice over how they learn themselves. Choice In the classroom, agency empowers a shift where students can choose the right tool for the right task to demonstrate conceptual understanding and mastery.

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Address Learning Differences with These Micro-credentials from @DigitalPromise

techlearning

Research-based approach Educators who complete the stack are able to bring into practice a more personalized instructional approach, focusing on each student’s individual learning strengths and needs.

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Sketch 50: Join the movement!

EdTechTeam

Their generosity of time, daily sketches, and donations of books and webinars have made an incredible impact on the thousands of sketchers included in the #Sketch50 community.

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Can Online Courses Help Fix Teacher Professional Development?

techlearning

Course topics range from makerspaces, such as this makerspace course of mine, to this soon to launch design thinking course taught by Michael Cohen , to professional book studies, such as this one, based on The Pepper Effect , written by Sean Gaillard. Who wants to develop that solution with me?

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Marketplace trend update: 6 ed-tech developments

eSchool News

Learners, beginning in high school, will be able to track their academic and professional achievements and own their portfolio collections of learning, training, mentorship and digital credentialing. In addition to portfolios, MyMantl will offer digital badging tools, competency-based education program designers and job tools.

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Making Time vs Finding Time

A Principal's Reflections

Through social media a Personal Learning Network (PLN) provides a great antidote to the age-old time excuse. You can now learn anywhere, with anyone, at anytime you want for free. While online consider making some time to learn and then apply a new skill while earning a digital badge to acknowledge your informal learning.