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Discovery Education’s K-12 Learning Platform Earns Learner Variability Product Certification From Digital Promise

eSchool News

SILVER SPRING, MD (Thursday, April 14, 2022) — Discovery Education —the worldwide edtech leader whose digital services support learning wherever it takes place—announced today that its award-winning K-12 learning platform has earned the Learner Variability Product Certification from Digital Promise.

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14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education

TeachThought - Learn better.

Competency-Based Learning. Competency-Based Education is something I’m hearing more and more about, which is neither bad nor good, but worth understanding more carefully. And anymore, they end being the punchline of edtech jokes, somehow. Six Common Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education.

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

EdNews Daily

The new paradigm allows for students to be placed at appropriate points for them on the predetermined highways of learning, with customization byways as needed. This breaks up the traditional age/grade groupings to make way for dynamic groupings based on individual progress.

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How colleges are adapting to the future of education

Linways Technologies

If that seems too far fetched, just think about the number of jobs that was created in the last few decades, like social media manager, drone operator, mobile app developer, system admin etc. Most of the jobs that today’s students will do in the future does not even exist yet.

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Competency-Based Education: A Reading Journey

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

One very important point here: as with all of my Edtech Elixirs entries and my personal social media posts, this is only Adam Watson's ideal list as of this posting. The book also helped me think more deeply about the importance of advisory scheduling, graduate profiles, and students doing defenses of learning.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Of course, teachers have utilized social media sites for years to launch various side-hustles — speaking gigs and “ brand ambassadorships ”, for example — as well as to facilitate their main hustle — you know, teaching. The incident, she added, had also made her aware that “Pearson is monitoring all social media during PARCC testing.”

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