Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

He muddled through with low grades and the assumption that learning was wearisome and trying. “I His own school experiences have since fueled his drive to support data-driven personalized learning in an effort to make today’s schools engaging, fun and free of “the stress and angst” many students feel.

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Fractus Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2020

With four different worlds and 23 game characters, Monster Math offers an engaging way for kids to learn over 67 math skills. The arcade-style math app for kids is designed for Grade K-5 with ordinary skill presets aligned with Common Core State Standards. The math app is customizable to your kid’s skill level.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

Pearson CEO John Fallon recently met with a group of reporters at Education Week’ s offices and spoke about his company’s business strategies and record, and offered a defense against some of its detractors’ claims. We’re very confident that our products are aligned to the common core. John Fallon CEO, Pearson.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

National networks of schools centered on project-based learning, including the Expeditionary Learning and New Tech public school networks, now include hundreds of schools across the country. The adoption of the Common Core standards led many other schools to try the model , too.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

This is part eleven of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual “Internet Trends” report. Much of what Meeker says in this year’s report about education is placed under her category “gaming.”

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The lessons offer a realistic learning environment and a personalized learning experience, aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), Common Core and state standards. Material from a press release was used in this report. For a video demonstration, click here.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2015

Summit, for example, will contribute more than 16,000 comprehensive Common Core-aligned resources for students in sixth through 12th grades in October, and High Tech High has already contributed over 4,000 resources. Material from a press release was used in this report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

Kaswell — now in his tenth year teaching at MS 88 , a large middle school in the South Slope section of Brooklyn — has always been drawn to combining face-to-face instruction with online learning. But now he’s implementing a particularly intense approach to it, known as personalized learning.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

The district came to a consensus on the definition of digital literacy skills, what kinds of common core standards included them, and how they were already being taught. Typing can be worked into project-based learning, or students can use tools like Google Docs to practice typing.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik. FRAMINGHAM, Mass.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Create Learning Targets demonstrating what students will be able to do. In the last post I provided the following standards and listed the nouns I thought might be important: Example Standards. Students will be able to collaborate on a presentation that provides what they have learned in their own words.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Summit Learning’s personalized learning program is a key part of the school’s improvement efforts. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Personalized learning is one of the most popular goals in schools today. Related: The messy reality of personalized learning. MESA, Ariz.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 13, 2014

Tuesday, May 20th at 1pm CoSN Webinar Series - Over the Horizon: Results from the2014 Horizon K-12 Report , Join us for a sneak preview of the much-anticipated “2014 Horizon Report K-12 Edition,” being released this summer. Learn how to use the Horizon Report Toolkit for your own strategic planning and professional development.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

MARCH 10, 2020

As Martin describes examples of what a competency-based report card/transcript may look like (in particular, the work of the Mastery Transcript Consortium ), you realize how crucial it is to have an effective reporting tool of learning, especially for high school.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

for example – it has faced considerable resistance from parents and teachers annoyed that the time-consuming, and sometimes confusing, change in classroom life has come from top-tier school administrators. Students engaged in a group history project, for example, might need to demonstrate that they have learned to collaborate and investigate.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

The New York Times has a new education supplement, called Learning, and The Hechinger Report is collaborating with the Times to produce Bulletin Board, a collection of noteworthy ideas and trends in education that will appear on page 2 of the section, which will come out four times a year. Highlights from Bulletin Board follow.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

For example, it didn’t integrate with Google Apps, which we had spent the last three years using. Beautiful, actionable reports help students, teachers, parents, and administrators monitor progress and take action. Personalized learning” might be trendy, but it isn’t new. My colleagues had mixed feelings about it too.

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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2017

Indeed, this belief in efficiency and science helped to justify inBloom, as Data & Society’s new report on the history of the $100 million data infrastructure initiative demonstrates. The claims about “personalized learning” attainable through more data collection and data analysis remain primarily marketing hype.

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Fractus Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The kids’ math activities and books cover the Common Core Standards and the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework. A weekly planner guides parents through the week’s distance learning resources. It is one of the most entertaining adaptive learning programs for kids age 6 to 14 years.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2018

Yet where she sees “promise” are movements to improve education at the classroom level, particularly through instructional approaches now often referred to as “personalized learning.”. “We Department of Education, Common Core is dead. This is not the first time DeVos has praised personalized learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Below is a quick summary of four common edtech business models, with an example of a company that is implementing each. The more common freemium model limits the amount of features or support a teacher receives for the free product, and the paid version is essentially a more robust version of the same product.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

Nebraskans also value local control, and elected not to adapt the Common Core standards. Many times, I have attended an EdCamp and learned more about the latest in education and brought it immediately back to my classroom. Instead, we use our own standards—written by Nebraskans, for Nebraska students.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

About two years ago Houston Independent School District , with its 283 schools and 215,000 students, went in search of an LMS that would help teachers create and use coursework that was both digital and aligned to Texas state standards (Texas pointedly does not use the Common Core).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2017

SAN FRANCISCO — Erin Mote is a technologist and hands-on middle school principal with a strong belief in the power of personalized learning. Betheny Gross, who is leading a study of personalized learning at the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) in Seattle. We’ve got very little to go on.’’. Does it work?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

ESSA gives more autonomy and flexibility to states than they had under NCLB through competency-based assessments, which could drive the development of personalized learning technologies. Significantly, ESSA mandates the collection and reporting of per pupil expenditure data at the school level. funding) and outputs (e.g.,

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Horizon Report. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. But as the ed-tech sector is never willing to let a bad idea die, the report will live on. The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade.

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Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

. “Ten more states sued the federal government on Friday over a directive to public schools on bathroom use by transgender students , adding their objections to those of 11 states that brought a lawsuit soon after the directive was released in May,” The New York Times reports. Via The Wall Street Journal : “ U.S.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

. “High school students will be allowed to carry mace in the 2016–2017 school year after the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education agreed to remove prohibitive language and amend its policy,” the Salisbury Post reports. ” Via Chalkbeat : “They rejected multi-state Common Core exams. ” “D.C.

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Hack Education

JULY 29, 2016

President Obama was introduced Wednesday night, for example, by Sharon Belkofer, a member of the Rossford, Ohio school board. Via Politico : Stolen “emails from the Democratic National Committee show DNC Deputy Communications Director Eric Walker telling his colleagues to avoid mentioning the Common Core in a video.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. The Hechinger Report is an independent unit of Teachers College.) Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. Along with her strong support for charter schools and the Common Core curriculum, Gist was convinced that great student outcomes could be directly tied to teaching excellence.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

students were enrolled in districts that offered some in-person learning at least a few days a week. And education experts still forecast huge amounts of learning loss and negative social and emotional impacts , especially for younger students, those with special needs and lower-income students. As of Nov. Rights and equity.

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