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8 LMS features that support student autonomy in the classroom and beyond

Neo LMS

Today’s educational technology makes it easier to support student autonomy in the classroom and beyond it. One of the most popular tools that achieve this goal is the learning management system (LMS). Learn how your school LMS can empower students and help them become efficient autonomous learners. .

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Why Flipped Learning Is Still Going Strong 10 Years Later

Edsurge

It became know as the flipped classroom—a modern, video-based version of a model pioneered by a handful of higher ed professors during the 1990s. Perhaps also because as flipped learning has evolved, it has adopted much more of an open-ended definition. All of the students took a sigh of relief.”.

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6 Ways Technology Can Reinvent Parent-Teacher Conferences

Edsurge

In fact, we should use this technology to our advantage and add more ways that teachers and parents can work together face-to-face in helping every student succeed. If some parents don’t understand the technology you’re using in class, pool the conference slots and have groups of parents come in for personalized training.

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Mastery Simplified: Five Tips to Make Mastery a Reality

Turning Learning On Its Head

Recently I have been helping a number of teachers move from a flipped classroom to the Flipped Mastery classroom. A mastery classroom is difficult to implement because students are not all learning the same thing at the same time. Benjamin Bloom wrote a landmark paper called Learning For Mastery in 1968.

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Why a K-12 Operating System is the Next Step in the Evolution of Edtech

Edsurge

One of the first curricular tools I built to share—on the first day of school—was a public, student-friendly gradebook on Google Sheets. Yes, this was before Google Classroom existed!) I was so green at this point in my career that I probably assumed every classroom in the 21st century operated this way.

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How Improving Student Feedback and Teaching Data Science Restored Our Classroom Culture

Edsurge

I came away from the institute eager to try inquiry-based instruction in my class during the 2015-16 school year. The switch to inquiry-based learning required a dramatic shift from teacher- to learner-driven instruction. The next day in class, they respond in-app to any questions they received from me or from a peer.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)

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