Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

On top of all these challenges, higher education itself is, of course, seeing a variety of potential disrupters emerge, all powered at least in part through online learning. To this point, disruptive innovators have not directly attacked law schools by offering new versions of a legal education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

Nearly ten years ago, I started my career in education as a math teacher at a new alternative high school serving over-age, under-credited youth in New York City. If we, the educators, were going to serve our students well, we were going to have to get pedagogically creative. Abbas Manjee's standards-based Algebra 1 scope and sequence.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 6, 2019

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 paradigm allows for students to be placed at appropriate points for them on the predetermined highways of learning, with customization byways as needed.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

A kid who does not do their homework normally will not watch the lectures at home even if you hold them accountable,” educator Chris Aviles has written in a screed against the model’s hype. Think of flipped as the operating system of education. Think of flipped as the operating system of education.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

This past week, we traveled to the Golden, Colorado to attend the Conference of Online and Blended Learning (COBL), put on by the iLearn Collaborative. Here is what we learned: In his opening keynote, Tom Vander Ark, CEO of Getting Smart, asked the audience, “Why student-centered learning?”

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Despite all the promises of education technology in transforming how students learn, change has been, at best, incremental. Bold claims have been made in the past decade about personalized learning, automated assessments and massive open online courses (MOOCs).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Beginning that very first year in my Algebra classroom, I've strived to make it easier for educators to design their own curriculum. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

They get frequent updates on which skills they’ve learned and which ones they need to acquire. Mastery-based learning, also known as proficiency-based or competency-based learning, is taking hold across the country. New York City Department of Education officials have taken a contrasting position.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

The shift came to the school ahead of a statewide deadline to have proficiency-based graduation requirements in place for all of Vermont’s 2020 high school graduates. The requirements came as part of a broader effort to make education in Vermont more student-centered, with an emphasis on customization, flexibility and project-based work.

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