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8 Ed-tech organizations every teacher should know about

Neo LMS

iNACOL (International Association of K-12 Online Learning). Structure: Membership-based. Focus: Digital Learning Advocacy and Research. Main themes that can be found in their work include personalized and competency based learning, blended and online learning. Digital Promise.

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Don’t Teach Grit. Embed It.

Edsurge

But what has been left unsaid is how our current system of education works systematically against instilling these skills in students, and how we could naturally embed the development of grit in students—in a way that doesn’t talk explicitly about grit—by moving to a competency-based learning system.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.” CZI took over the engineering of the learning management system from Facebook in 2017.). US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called badges a “game-changing strategy.”.

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