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Giving Students Flexibility With Competency-Based Education

Digital Promise

I walked in a 4 th grade class and noticed that each student had an iPad. He showed me the detailed rubric he was given, which laid out the competencies he needed to master, as well as the Excel spreadsheet he was creating to map out his budget for the party.

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

Edsurge

What we should be exploring, in other words, is not how well an environment personalizes along the dimensions of our preconceived notions of what is good, but what gets what results. Slope of Enlightenment: Competency-Based Learning. Competency-based learning is one of these. Deeper Learning.

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Do Students, Principals and Superintendents See Eye-to-Eye on Eliminating Grade Levels?

Edsurge

Cederick Ellis and Summit Elementary School principal Lakya Taylor-Washington, the bigger asset in going personalized comes down to removing arbitrary grade level assignments and creating “learning labs,” a style of competency-based learning that Summit has been experimenting with since 2015.

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The Value of Googleable Questions?

Tech Helpful

She didn't own a smartphone or iPad because they were not yet invented. How do we make sure students are truly answering from their knowledge bank and not their ability to ask Google good questions? How do we make sure students are learning how to use tools beyond technology? When are shortcuts ok? elementary?

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How to Bring ‘Mastery Learning’ to the Classroom

Edsurge

How do you track student progress? I’ve seen teachers do it with an iPad or on a cell phone. How do they call you over without interrupting the learning? However, with that said, within two or three months of learning in this environment, the students came around. Figuring out the classroom management components.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

Users can also use the NEO advanced features such as automation, gamification, learning paths, and competency-based learning directly from the Windows App. Learners will also study zSpace interactions, including how a user can manipulate objects in stereoscopic 3D.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids have iPads. Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. The iPad would solve that,” he said.

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