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Personalized Learning “Twister”: A Future of Learning Live Demo in Dallas

EdNews Daily

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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OPINION: Post pandemic, it’s time for a bold overhaul of U.S. public education, starting now

The Hechinger Report

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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Personalizing Path & Pace Through Mastery Learning

EdTechTeacher

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. by Tom Driscoll. Key Resource #3. Key Resource #4.

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[Guest Post] The Future of Learning is Now

Education Elements

The Jaquelin Hume Foundation’s mission is to accelerate the implementation of high quality blended/personalized learning in America’s schools. Personalized learning is an idea whose time has come. Seventeen plus years ago when I joined the Foundation as its executive director, the mission was much different.

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Activate Instruction migrates content to Gooru

eSchool News

When school starts this fall, teachers can use Gooru to personalize lessons for their students,” said Michele Hansen, president of the Girard Education Foundation. Gooru’s enhanced, free K-12 content will support a variety of innovative educational models and facilitate the growth of competency-based learning.”.

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Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

In 2013, the Legislature passed a landmark education reform that offered students flexible pathways to graduation and more dual-enrollment options so they could earn credits toward college while in high school, and required the implementation of personalized learning plans for every student.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Whittle went on to have a string of business failures in the 1990s — well-documented in Samuel Abrams’s book The Commercial Mindset — most notably the for-profit flop Edison Schools.

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