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How to write SMART learning objectives in your LMS

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Use SMART learning objectives in an LMS through competency-based learning. Competency-based learning is one of the most valuable LMS features. This type of learning requires learners to demonstrate concrete and measurable skills. Create or upload SMART learning objectives.

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What’s the Difference Between Project- and Challenge-Based Learning, Anyway?

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For many, competency-based learning might have been the first thing to pop in their heads. But others might have considered challenge-based, community-based or even case-based learning. Cator’s organization has tried to brand CBL as challenge-based learning.) Department of Education.

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Sal Khan: Test Prep Is ‘the Last Thing We Want to Be’

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Once the teacher approves all of the personalized learning plans for each of the students based on what their RIT scores and the various common core strands, then the student gets an email notification saying, “You’re ready to get started on your personalized learning plan.” How’s that going? Successful?

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Looking to Ditch Traditional Grades? Here’s How to Get Stakeholders On Board

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Rather than a traditional GPA, the group imagines a credit-based transcript , with links to artifacts that demonstrate students’ mastery across different competencies. He says at Two Rivers, they’ve rooted evaluations in standards—Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards—and that helps gets teachers invested.

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Identifying the Top Four Challenges in K-12 Education

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Across the country, schools are adopting new approaches to teaching and learning in order to prepare students for life in a technology-rich world. Further, deeper learning develops students’ creativity and innovation, and information and technology literacy necessary to thrive in a digital world ( P21 ).

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Four Ways to Redefine Parent Teacher Conferences—With a Little Help from Ironman

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In these conferences, we spoke little about grades and missing work because I had provided that information to my students in real-time throughout the semester, which meant conferences became a space to talk about what’s being learned rather than what’s missing. Now he doesn’t pay interest, which means he’s not wasting money!”

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Why a K-12 Operating System is the Next Step in the Evolution of Edtech

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Abbas Manjee's standards-based Algebra 1 scope and sequence. My goal was to minimize the information asymmetry that tends to exist between what teachers know about their students and what students know about their performance. At the time, I had no idea this system was called “standards-based grading.” Full size image here.

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