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Sal Khan: Test Prep Is ‘the Last Thing We Want to Be’

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Ten years ago, Sal Khan set out to change that with his Khan Academy videos, which let kids replay lessons as many times as they want. Here in education, Khan doesn’t need much introduction. And then it goes into the kind of mastery learning framework of Khan Academy. Even with our SAT prep.

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Don’t Teach Grit. Embed It.

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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. Are they despondent?

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Why Flipped Learning Is Still Going Strong 10 Years Later

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Early this decade there was perhaps no one person—not even Bergmann or Sams—more associated with flipping the classroom than Sal Khan, due in no small part to the more than 140 million views his Khan Academy videos had racked up by 2012. But to hear Khan tell it, that association was little more than a coincidence of timing.

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Curriculum Design is Emotional Work—This Teacher Makes It Easier

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To somewhat quote Darth Vader, I found the lack of quality edtech curriculum deeply disturbing. competency-based (a.k.a. standards-based) school for at-risk youth, pre-packaged curriculum and assessments offered very little flexibility for personalization or modification. Because I taught at a.

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Why a K-12 Operating System is the Next Step in the Evolution of Edtech

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If students missed class or needed additional help, they could go to my website and access the day’s lesson as well as videos and digital exercises from YouTube and Khan Academy. Abbas Manjee's standards-based Algebra 1 scope and sequence. Learn more about Kiddom Academy. Full size image here.

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8 Ed-tech organizations every teacher should know about

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Focus: EdTech Access and Advocacy. CoSN positions itself as the only national professional association dedicated exclusively to education technology leaders working to transform learning. Main themes that can be found in their work include personalized and competency based learning, blended and online learning.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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The popularity of sites like Khan Academy helped fuel the narrative that video could teach anything and that YouTube would “ reinvent education ” — funny, as Thomas Edison thought the same thing about film back in 1922. CZI took over the engineering of the learning management system from Facebook in 2017.).

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