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What lessons does special education hold for personalized learning?

The Hechinger Report

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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What Lessons Does Special Education Hold for Improving Personalized Learning?

MindShift

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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Identifying Effective EdTech: Certified Products Are the Way to Go

edWeb.net

Industry standards, urged the panelists, are critical to measuring the trustworthiness of product claims and completing product comparisons. Working with hundreds of districts across the country, we bring deep expertise in learning sciences, data management and analysis, software design, coaching, and collaboration.

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AI Is Everywhere. Now It Wants to Teach You Chinese.

Edsurge

The company describes the system as a “never before enabled language scaffolding” for personalized learning. Gordon is using traditional AP prep materials as well and says Ponddy holds up well by comparison. There’s definitely a lot of source material. It’s nice to have an opportunity to do that.”

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Educators on Artificial Intelligence: Here's the One Thing it Can't Do Well

Edsurge

Some give generalized, out-of-classroom descriptions; others tailor their definitions more specifically to education. Glenn Robbins Though Merriam Webster defines artificial intelligence as the “capability of a machine to imitate intelligent human behavior,” educators define AI differently.

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Stop working off a deficit model with 3 assessment ideas that support student individuality

The Cornerstone for Teachers

Adaptive assessments, i.e. personalized learning or individualized instruction tools, are (often) computer-based, multiple-choice tests that adjust to get increasingly difficult or easier in response to correct/incorrect answers. From these programs teachers are armed with “personalized learning plans” for each student. .

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Stop working off a deficit model with 3 assessment ideas that support student individuality

The Cornerstone for Teachers

Adaptive assessments, i.e. personalized learning or individualized instruction tools, are (often) computer-based, multiple-choice tests that adjust to get increasingly difficult or easier in response to correct/incorrect answers. From these programs teachers are armed with “personalized learning plans” for each student. .