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What Is Competency-Based Learning, Why Does It Matter?

The CoolCatTeacher

Every Classroom Matters episode 210 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. New Hampshire and educator John Martin are at the forefront of the competency-based learning movement. Even assessment changes with competency-based learning.

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Identifying the Top Four Challenges in K-12 Education

Digital Promise

You can reach her on Twitter at @aubreyfrancisco. You can reach her on Twitter at @kelseye144. Across the country, schools are adopting new approaches to teaching and learning in order to prepare students for life in a technology-rich world. Share your thoughts with us on Twitter: @digitalpromise. Why is this important?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised.

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