EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 6, 2019

If you ask a dozen educators to define personalized learning, you’ll no doubt get some enthusiastic answers, and all twelve will probably be different. The new-school answer to the definition of personalized learning is markedly different. Teachers can afford the attention needed for catching some students up.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

As Clayton Christensen recently said to me, just as people have taken the phrase “disruptive innovation” to justify whatever they already wanted to do, people are using the phrase personalized learning—and a whole host of other terms—in a similar manner. Peak of Inflated Expectations: Personalized Learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 8, 2023

Over the years, the state of Utah has provided me with a plethora of opportunities to work with schools on Personalized Competency-Based Learning ( PCBL ). I love seeing 13- and 14-year-olds learn how to manage their time using short-term deadlines. Self-regulation is a hallmark of personalized learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

After unprecedented learning loss, growing disparities in educational outcomes and overall public dissatisfaction, the time is right for an education overhaul. A decade ago, barely half of all states had policies in place that allowed for personalized, competency-based learning. Now, almost every state does.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 16, 2022

In simple terms, these are ungraded formative assessments that assess what students learned during the course of the lesson. A recent visit to Quest Academy Junior High School, where I began longitudinal work on personalized competency-based learning (PCBL), got me thinking more deeply about this strategy.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 5, 2023

During the spring of 2022, I met Nicki Slaugh , who serves as principal, and many of her staff at a school system where we were all there to facilitate professional learning on Personalized Competency-Based Learning (PCBL). After several workshops, I began coaching cycles in the fall of 2022.

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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 20, 2019

A core element of personalized learning involves tailoring students’ path and pace to their specific needs and interests. This practice is often coupled with the overarching philosophy of mastery learning, sometimes referred to as competency-based education. The example provided above is from an ELA course.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The other lever I think we have is working with the system itself, where we move to a competency-based world. I view competency-based learning as a form of mastery learning. Mastery learning tends to apply to the individual skills or small sets of skills, while competency is, do you know algebra now?

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Neo LMS

JUNE 21, 2022

Nonetheless, self-evaluation is equally or more important since it allows students to properly assess their strengths and weaknesses and pinpoint the needed course of action. Additionally, competency-based learning shows students their progress in achieving goals through self-monitoring features. Personalized learning.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 18, 2015

It’s Time For Personalized Learning In Education. In March, Tom Loveless, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, took an outdated swipe at the logic behind moving toward a student-centered learning system. Why is Loveless concerned about students learning the same thing at the same time?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The result was the adoption of “a learner centered, personalized, competency-based” approach that allows students to meet learning goals on their own terms, Rooney said. Related: Why a high-performing district is changing everything with competency-based learning. High school senior Connor Dunbar.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

No matter if we’re talking about kindergartens, elementary schools, high schools or colleges and universities, the need for a learning platform that offers personalized learning experiences for each student is all too real. 3 Core aspects of a personalized learning platform. Recommendations.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

As reporter Linda Jacobson noted in the article, online learning has long been used in schools for subjects they couldn’t otherwise offer. But even courses we think of as fundamental—physics, for example—have long been glaring areas where schools haven’t had qualified teachers. She cited A.P. Calculus and Latin as examples.

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Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2017

There’s an old joke that the original form of distance education is sitting in the back of a large lecture course. Education technology researcher George Siemens and a colleague hope that personalized learning approaches can help better connect professors and students in large classes.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

Leaders at the institution have found that its students do best learning together in cohorts and through lab-based courses, rather than “off on their own, learning independently, them and a screen,” Bettersworth explains.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

WHAT: Piedmont Middle School is seeking to pilot digital learning programs that support competency-based learning in science and social studies. There is strong leadership from the superintendent and middle school principal, focused on using technology to power personalized learning. Web-based preferred.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

Her teacher has embraced competency-based learning, which asks students to take more control in the classroom. If a student was particularly interested in a topic not offered in an existing course, she suggested an independent study. Olivia Mone, Melrose High School senior on competency-based learning. “It

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eSchool News

MAY 4, 2016

Odysseyware, a provider of customizable online courses for K-12 education, announced the launch of its School Transformation Series. These models are ushering in a new era of personalized learning pathways, teacher empowerment, and student choice.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

Blended learning in credit-recovery courses and alternative schools—areas where students would often have no brick-and-mortar options—has gotten a bad rap because of questions about the rigor of the online learning experience. The school’s graduating class this summer had an 89.8

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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. But this year, with them being more knowledgeable and of course wanting the best for their child, this has been a conversation that's come up often. Dr. Cederick Ellis, McComb Superintendent.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

One of the more radical departures is its rejection of a fixed course schedule, organized by credit hours or semesters; students advance as soon as they can demonstrate they’ve mastered the material. The International Association for K-12 Online Learning urged in December that competency-based learning be expanded.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 7, 2019

Without further ado, here are the general directions in which the industry of educational technologies is growing: Adaptive learning and learner-centric education. Phill: The first question is about adaptive personalized learning. And learner centric is kind of even more important than adaptive learning or personalized learning.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2022

These classes also open the door to self-paced personalized learning. Today, edtech companies are actively working on taking digitization even further by converting the traditional LMS into an intelligent learning platform (ILP). Intelligent learning platform benefits for K-12 schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2019

For the last three years in a row, it has been 97 percent, and the superintendent attributes the whole of that increase to the district’s efforts to personalize learning. At the heart of personalized learning is building a positive relationship with every student, every single day.”.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2016

But that time with you is crucial; it can make all the difference in how they support their child as he navigates courses or college applications. Demonstrate how to check grades, order spirit wear, view weekly lesson plans, and—during spring conference season—register for next year’s courses. Personalized Learning Through Gaming.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Despite all the promises of education technology in transforming how students learn, change has been, at best, incremental. Bold claims have been made in the past decade about personalized learning, automated assessments and massive open online courses (MOOCs).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

He said the school’s transition is still in progress, but the district has been fairly successful in its adoption of the proficiency-based model. Teachers visit to observe from around the state and country and the school was featured in videos made for a recent MIT online course , he said. I’m an educated person.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Student achievement is evaluated against common learning standards and performance expectations that are consistently applied to all students, regardless of whether they are enrolled in traditional courses, pursuing alternative learning pathways or receiving academic support. 10 Principles of Proficiency-Based Learning.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Rethinking How Schools Work: Another trend educators have long talked about is the need to make learning more interdisciplinary, interactive and student-driven. Technology could be a productive part of this shift by changing where and how students engage with learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Despite my lack of experience, I was tasked with teaching Algebra 1, a course culminating in a standardized test all New York high school students must pass to graduate. I was a first year math teacher placed at a brand new, alternative high school serving at-risk youth in New York City.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JANUARY 26, 2022

When our district began its journey into competency-based education (CBE), one of the significant early steps was the publication of our Profile of a Graduate (PoG) in 2017. The Profile was crucial in developing our current Strategic Leadership Plan for 2018-2022, where Personalized Learning is the top strand.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

MARCH 10, 2020

This entry is an attempt to compile a useful -- but by no means exhaustive -- list of CBE related books that I personally feel have been either extremely illuminating in pragmatic ways (detailed models, insightful anecdotes, clear "how to's") or it inspired me to stay the course. Often the same book did both! Stack and Jonathan G.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

Many administrators at public schools say they are using strategies to “personalize” learning, giving students the chance to tackle coursework at their own pace or have a greater say in what they study. And that, these advocates say, is the real goal for personalized learning. — Tara García Mathewson.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Users can also use the NEO advanced features such as automation, gamification, learning paths, and competency-based learning directly from the Windows App. This new partnership will let Canvas users gain a streamlined process for curriculum mapping, course building, content collection, and progress monitoring.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

They get frequent updates on which skills they’ve learned and which ones they need to acquire. Mastery-based learning, also known as proficiency-based or competency-based learning, is taking hold across the country. Mastery-based learning, of course, has its critics.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Rafter, a course material provider that was an early advocate of and provider for this bundling of textbooks and tuition, closed its doors in 2016 , having raised more than $86 million.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

Via EdSource : “ Cal State drops intermediate algebra as requirement to take some college-level math courses.” Pretty sure this is the best MOOC story of the week: “ Russian Underground Launches Online Courses in Card Fraud ,” Infosecurity Group reports. Personalized learning is anything you want it to be.

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