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Formative Assessment is Key to Being Responsive

Catlin Tucker

Formative assessment is a process of gathering information about students’ understanding and their progress toward firm standards-aligned learning goals. Formative assessment helps teachers gauge how effective their instruction has been at helping students learn concepts and apply skills.

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Why Are We Still Personalizing Learning If It’s Not Personal?

Edsurge

It makes perfect sense why there is a push for personalized learning in our schools. As an ideal, personalized learning aims to provide instructional experiences tailored to each learner’s preferences and interests, and at a pace appropriate to their needs. Why do you think people want to use the applications?”

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The 6 principles of mastery-based learning

Neo LMS

Mastery-based learning is a competency-oriented teaching method. Students should master learning content but also abilities such as adaptability, resilience, and agency. Indeed, the common denominator is putting the learner at the center of instruction in terms of the learning experience, the foundation and the outcome.

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3 Reasons Teachers Should Use the Playlist Model

Catlin Tucker

A playlist is a sequence of learning activities designed to move students toward a desired result. Most playlists culminate in a performance task or artifact intended to demonstrate students’ ability to transfer or apply what they learned working through the playlist. You listen to a sequence of songs in a particular order.

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Three Ways You Can Harness Personalized Learning to Promote a Growth Mindset

Edsurge

If you’ve spent time instituting Stanford professor Carol Dweck’s work on mindsets in your classroom, you know that having a growth mindset is all about embracing the power of “yet.” We’ve put a lot of thought into how best to define personalized learning. So, how exactly does personalized learning fit into the equation?

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AI in the classroom: Are we there yet?

Neo LMS

We’ve described before the nuanced distinction between AI and machine learning : machine learning is a subset of AI and encompasses cutting-edge work primarily using neural networks to mimic how the brain computes, applied to the more superior capacity of computers, enabling them to learn. You teach it to learn.

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One Standardized Tests Provider Looks to Gaming and Personalized Learning to Innovate Exams

Edsurge

We are hearing from educators that oftentimes our assessments seem so detached from what is going on in the classroom. We are hearing from educators that oftentimes our assessments seem so detached from what is going on in the classroom.” Aligning tests with the ways students learn in the classroom is one of Gorin’s goals.