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). Relationships are the foundations of learning,” he said.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Khan Academy videos coupled with IXL exercises aligned to standards we were learning in class. It took a lot of time and effort to curate the best resources from the surplus of providers, but it was worth it; I learned a lot about my students and my students learned in a way most suitable for them. .

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Khan Academy Assessment Differentiated Instruction EdTech 60

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Through examinations of classroom surveys such as Project Tomorrow’s Speak Up , the Flipped Learning Global Initiative estimates that around 16 percent of U.S. I said, ‘Look, here’s what I expect you to learn, and here’s everything you need to learn it. Go learn it, but I’m not going to tell you to learn it by this date.’

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Flipped Classroom Khan Academy Learning Video 139

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

So the entire school, including the students, held a weeklong design thinking exercise on what they thought school should look like. After taking the helm, Smith realized that students who had previously failed in other places were coming to the same model of education that had previously failed them.

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Personalized Learning iLearn Learning Dropout 60

Turning Learning On Its Head

MARCH 20, 2016

Benjamin Bloom wrote a landmark paper called Learning For Mastery in 1968. Mastery Learning was not widely adopted due to the logistics of having students learning content at varying paces. And in 1968, the lack of technological tools made mastery learning very difficult. Tip #4: Fighting the Line: Visual Clues.

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Moodle Assessment Flipped Classroom Video 40

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

Little did I know this experience would eventually propel me to help develop a school operating system that tackles technology issues plaguing educators and supports them with more opportunities to offer individualized instruction. Abbas Manjee's standards-based Algebra 1 scope and sequence. Full size image here.

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System Khan Academy EdTech LMS 124

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. The students at M.S. Photo: Kyle Spencer. Several factors are driving this shift.

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