Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2021

We are beginning to document that many students have become disconnected from the educational system during the pandemic… and many of them have probably become mobile and are moving to different communities and schools.” The five original superintendents had also already been in close contact for years.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2019

So I’ve been preaching that wholesale mastery learning isn’t realistic because you have to really think about your grade system. If you look at the content on the MAP accelerator, it is common core aligned content and it’s all from the standards in the common core and not just what may or may not be in the MAP.

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Khan Academy Common Core Assessment EdTech 123

The Web20Classroom

MAY 10, 2017

This post is sponsored by ThinkCERA , an online platform designed to empower teachers to personalize literacy instruction across disciplines. The use of digital learning spaces has exploded in use in classrooms nearly everywhere. This Blended Learning approach is both beneficial but its definition can be tough to nail down.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 5, 2018

This gamified math ecosystem is popular with students because it’s fun and teachers because it ties into many national and international standards (like Common Core). Zapzapmath Home includes a scaffolded system of seven apps, one for each grade level from K-6.

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Common Core Digital Citizenship Android Facebook 155

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

The Windsor Locks High School freshman belongs to the first cohort of students going through middle and high school under a new system. Traditional grades no longer exist, children get extra help based on their individual learning needs and classrooms run very differently. She heard the rationale for the new system.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

To get up to grade level in science, Amarachi Onyemaobi knew she needed to understand the systems of the human body. That’s the vision that Matchbook’s Spark information system has helped make a reality at Merit Prep. That’s the vision that Matchbook’s Spark information system has helped make a reality at Merit Prep.

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Common Core Blended Learning Data Assessment 60

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Key features like voice search, Word of the Day, integrated thesaurus, example sentences, and audio pronunciations elevate the learning experience. The app also caters to personalized learning with features like favorite words, search history, and iCloud syncing.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

As more schools across the country experiment with d personalized learning approaches to better meet the needs, goals and interests of individual learners, many are overlooking an important piece: arts integration. Related: Do the arts go hand-in-hand with common core? Photo: Kevin Hagen.

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Personalized Learning Common Core Elementary Exercises 80

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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Data System Software Assessment 104

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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Khan Academy Android Common Core iPhone 52

Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

The organization’s strategies have touched a variety of areas, including teacher preparation, the launching of charter schools, helping teachers implement the common-core standards, and improving instruction through efforts that span curriculum, scheduling, and other factors.

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Strategy Common Core Policies Personalized Learning 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Personalized learning lets Champlain Valley Union High School sophomore Bella Curtis study toward a certificate in horse management. The law let Maine schools determine their own grading systems, but many high schools switched from an A through F system to using numbers from one to four to indicate “proficiency” in mastering standards.

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Advocacy Learning Conference Common Core 87

Technology Tidbits

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

As w/ the previous year''s list, more and more mobile apps are making the list as mobile learning continues to be the rising trend in education. However, that''s not to say that there isn''t a good amount of websites and Learning Management Systems showing up as well. Also, a nice place to find Common Core aligned lesson plans.

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Game-Based Learning Common Core iPad Mobility 74

Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

He also talked about how he thinks policy shifts like the implementation of the common-core standards and the adoption of “open” educational resources are likely to affect the K-12 market, and his company’s work. We’re very confident that our products are aligned to the common core. John Fallon CEO, Pearson.

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Common Core Pearson Resources Company 76

Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Common Core math standards and Next Generation Science Standards were being implemented, and subjects were becoming more interconnected. They then had to convert their measurements into different units while using the metric system. Perhaps best of all, smath always us to personalize learning in new ways.

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How To Differentiated Instruction Common Core Groups 127

Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Combing through more than 200 applications, the team chose schools that best articulated a need for personalized learning support, and help aligning their pedagogy and curriculum with state and Common Core standards. Many of our partners have likened it to a learning management system,” Johnson claims.

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Common Core Company Personalized Learning STEM 60

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2019

My students are already loaded into the system, and I simply assign a diagnostic. Quill improves student writing and frees me up for more advanced instruction and personalized learning. I can attach custom rubrics to various assignments or choose pre-built ones aligned with Common Core standards.

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Tools Common Core Robotics Exercises 68

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2018

Education is awash with efforts to personalize learning. But what does it mean for a company to personalize its support for the teachers who use its product? Raising $15M to Power Schools with Kiddom Academy, a K12 Operating System. When I Buy Edtech Products, Our Teachers Don’t Use Them… What Do I Do?

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Company EdTech Common Core Assessment 108

eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2016

A new hint system that automatically provides assistance to users who are stuck within a level. CodeCombat enhancements available Sept. CodeCombat is also helping boost student interest in CS careers.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

A new generation of reformers has been working to change that system for more than a decade, and many of their ideas are borrowed — knowingly or not — straight from preschool. The adoption of the Common Core standards led many other schools to try the model , too. Ebone Engram, 11, explains her diorama of the solar system.

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Personalized Learning Laptops Elementary Groups 98

Marketplace K-12

APRIL 4, 2016

A new project that seeks to “fundamentally rethink” the role that assessments play in student learning has issued 12 grants to schools, districts, and other awardees focused on fashioning makeovers of testing systems. The Assessment for Learning Project is focused on re-imagining assessment in a number of ways.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2015

As the public education system evolves toward supporting students’ personalized needs, online learning tools have emerged that allow teachers to customize instruction. In addition, Gooru offers a wiki-assessment system with millions of questions teachers can use to assess student learning.

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Haiku Learning Competency Based Learning Wiki Common Core 40

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

moving along and most schools resuming in-person learning, EdSurge caught up with Khan to discuss what the last year has been like for Khan Academy, what he’s learned and what he’s planning to do next. Most people who are middle-income or better, the Common Core kindergarten standards almost seem ridiculously easy.

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Khan Academy Learning Meeting Company 160

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2017

MST grades in a true competency-based grading system of 1-4, where student’s progress through their courses in a year or more time since seat time is not the focus. We completed a grading system, a competency-based report, a competency-based transcript along with a GPA system that made sense to us.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

This new software release includes more than 250 STEAM (science, technology, art and math) lesson plans and activities for K-12 educators to use with their students – in a virtual reality learning environment. It encourages collaboration, teamwork, reinforces good communication, and at same time students are learning science.”.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

Compile and organize this knowledge so that it is readily accessible for your staff—whether it’s on an internal file sharing system like OneNote, saved to Google Drive, or hosted on a school or district website. This very same approach can help you implement more personalized PD.

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Data Blended Learning LMS Knowledge Base 87

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

McComb School District down in McComb, Mississippi doesn’t just believe in the power of technology when it comes to personalized learning. You’ve brought iPads into your system, but the bigger change seems to be around getting rid of grade levels. All of our classrooms are learning labs now. Kiana, Summit student.

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Competency Based Learning Policies Common Core Elementary 80

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

student needs vary greatly from one classroom or school to the next,” says Kevin Connors, Director of Personalized Learning for Chicago Public Schools. For this reason, Legends of Learning will continue to fund original academic research and publish the findings, positive or negative. In every district throughout the U.S.,

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Game-Based Learning Learning EdTech Study 143

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. As the director of technology, she oversees the student information system, infrastructure, and instructional technology services.

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Online Assessments Assessment Elementary Common Core 41

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

Little did I know this experience would eventually propel me to help develop a school operating system that tackles technology issues plaguing educators and supports them with more opportunities to offer individualized instruction. At the time, I had no idea this system was called “standards-based grading.”

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System Khan Academy EdTech LMS 119

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Clinging to an outdated system The good news is that we have a lot of room for improvement and once we start moving in the right direction we will improve the chances these kids will find success. That is because the current design of the school system is more than 100 years old. We are so far into the dystopian farce of U.S.

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Industry System Common Core iPhone 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

There may be no better example of this in 2017 than “personalized learning.” “Personalized learning” has powerful advocates, least of which US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos who talks about it as part of her broader initiative to “rethink school.” Manufacturing Trends.

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Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

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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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

Students will be able to research and record key facts involving the planets of the solar system. Students will be able to collaborate on a presentation that provides what they have learned in their own words. Relevant Nouns – planets, solar system. Content is mapped to a variety of levels and standards including common core.

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Technology Support Khan Academy Technology OER 112

MindShift

MARCH 16, 2015

This is the second of a two-part conversation with Yong Zhao about standards, testing and other core elements of the modern system of education, and the assumptions that may be standing in the way of meeting the real learning needs of all children. Steps for Identifying Needs.

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Assessment Learning Common Core Comparison 28

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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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 13, 2015

Among the challenges of assessment, this concept–as it applies to formal academic classrooms designed to promote mastery of Common Core or similar standards–is near the top. In Evolving How We Plan , I pointed contentiously at the “unit” and “lesson” as impediments to personalized learning.

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