Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Why would arguably one of the most innovative (and definitely the richest) technology tycoon of the 21st century support a low-tech pedagogy that has barely changed in more than a hundred years? Maria Montessori created a curriculum for individualized, competency-based learning a century before any of these terms became buzzwords.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 26, 2015

For the 2014-15 school year, Piedmont Middle School, in rural northeast Alabama, reimagined how its students learn by letting them progress based on their mastery of skills and standards. There were definitely doubts at first. Every student receives a laptop for school and home. “We figured it out.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 6, 2019

As our paradigms change with tech and culture, and pressures mount to increase achievement and stop attrition of student to alternatives, so do the views of what personalized learning actually is. The new-school answer to the definition of personalized learning is markedly different.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. CZI took over the engineering of the learning management system from Facebook in 2017.). Robot essay graders — they grade just the same as human ones. Chatbot Instructors.

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