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What If We Measured Learning Through Skills Gained, Not Time Spent in the Classroom?

Edsurge

Maybe he walks his younger siblings to their elementary school each morning, demonstrating a knack for caregiving. I think the testing industry is very nervous,” he says. Embracing Flexibility? Picture a high school student who balances his studies with a variety of other responsibilities and activities.

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K-12 Educators and Administrators: Share Your Ed-tech Pilot Approach

Digital Promise

Digital Promise will award up to ten school or district leaders who submit a response by March 27 with a $1,000 stipend for a trip to San Francisco, including workshops with leading software companies, in partnership with the Education Technology Industry Network. It seems like it’s really built for high school students.

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3 Core aspects of a personalized learning platform

Neo LMS

We are not talking about some science fiction dream that is going to take 20 years to accomplish; almost all of these technologies are already available to various degrees in various industries, and they’ll go to the next level sometime in the next year, or in the next few years. The pixie dust tying everything together: Competencies.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

CENTRALREACH PK-12 ( www.centralreach.com/industry/pk-12-education ) CentralReach launches CentralReach PK-12, a collaborative and data-driven software for special education. Other features and functionality include interactive puzzles, word-free block based programming, different stages for all learners, and more.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Inside Higher Ed reports that “ National University is working to create a personalized education platform that combines three of the buzziest innovations in higher education – adaptive learning, competency-based learning and predictive analytics for student retention.”