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6 Tips for making the most of ed tech exhibitions

Neo LMS

Does the conference meet your school’s ed tech goals? To offer more personalized learning? Just when you are starting to get excited about all the sessions and seminars and… there are hundreds of them and only a time machine could help at this point. The NEO team will be happy to meet you there! Photo source.

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New Higher-Ed ‘Matchmaking’ Event Aims to Bridge Education Technology Silos

Edsurge

A pair of consultants who run a popular edtech blog plan to start offering events—in hopes of getting people at colleges and companies who don’t usually talk to each other to join forces on innovative teaching efforts. Open-ed people, personalized-learning people, and the learning-analytics people, they don’t talk to each other that much.”

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Is strength-based learning a “magic bullet?”

The Hechinger Report

They’re among the 10 “talent themes,” or strengths, used to underpin learning in the school district here. Starting in preschool, teachers try to spot students’ natural talents; by kindergarten, each child’s top strengths appear on a “personalized learning plan,” a new type of report card.

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How Passion Projects and Community Partners Create Relevant Learning for Teens in School

MindShift

As part of a series on reimagining Cedar Rapids, the company tapped Cornally — a high school STEM teacher whose subjects have included calculus, physics and computer science — to spearhead an effort called “The Return to School Project.” She had weekly seminars on the content and then was asked to apply it to her refugee project.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

The Hechinger Report

(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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What’s school without grade levels?

The Hechinger Report

Two teachers, known as “academic advisors,” were on call to field questions and ensure everybody stayed on task (the teachers also lead weekly seminars or labs to bolster the computer work). There’s so much behind music to learn.”. Still, it has been hard enough to schedule just one weekly seminar, he said.

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Three Career Paths for Educational Innovators—How to Get There and Where the Jobs Are

Edsurge

I treated my classroom like a business by investing in long-term purchases, I made an investment in my company.”. Learning Innovation Leader is often someone who started as a teacher or designer and is now ready to assume a leadership role managing or directing teams, projects and/or organizations involved in educational innovation.