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How to support your students’ executive functioning skills with the help of your LMS

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This is important since working memory impacts the way students complete learning tasks, especially since it can affect how students work with information. For example, a student who constantly struggles with solving a multi-step problem or following more complex directions may have working memory issues. Regulating emotions.

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What’s the Difference Between Project- and Challenge-Based Learning, Anyway?

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Here’s a quick exercise for those in education: What do the letters CBL stand for? For many, competency-based learning might have been the first thing to pop in their heads. But others might have considered challenge-based, community-based or even case-based learning. Department of Education.

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Finding ‘Personalized Learning’ and Other Edtech Buzzwords on the Gartner Hype Cycle

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Taking a step back though, we can imagine environments personalizing learning along a great variety of dimensions. Time, place, path and pace are one set of examples. We can also allow students to personalize by exercising choice in how they learn something. We can also give students choice in what they learn.

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?Higher Ed Innovators Maze: Where to Go, How to Start, How to Get There

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Higher education innovation” is no different, though instead of flying cars and Mars colonies, what likely comes to mind first are online and competency-based learning platforms, learning management systems, or electronic whiteboards. We need to think of implementing tech as a design exercise.

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The Canary in the Law School Coal Mine

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But were entities to emerge that paired online learning, with its flexibility and competency-based learning attributes, with place-based clinical experiences that trained students to practice law in a more affordable and practice-oriented fashion, the pressure on law schools would only increase.

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

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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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Where Are You on Your Personalized Learning Journey?

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Another shared that “student-centered learning should be an organic process, not the path that the teacher chooses.” Sand Creek High School in Colorado Springs, for example, began its 1:1 initiative this year. The shift towards student-centric can be hard for schools at first. He knew they had to do something different.