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Giving Students Flexibility With Competency-Based Education

Digital Promise

Last month, Johnson joined a handful of educators from the League of Innovative Schools on a tour of three public school districts in New Hampshire, a leader in competency-based education. When I landed in New Hampshire, I was eager to see competency-based education in action at the secondary level.

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Framework: Ed Elements Provides Model, Plan, Hand-holding

Edsurge

Download and examine Ed Elements’ three models for elementary schools and its three models for secondary schools. They have a Personalized Learning Implementation Framework that guides users through 25 key areas of personalized learning. It can work for those just starting or those already on a personalized learning path.

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New, MIT-based program proposes transforming physicists, engineers into teachers

The Hechinger Report

The “Great Dome” on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is hosting an experimental program to recruit physicists, engineers, chemists, linguists, biologists, neuroscientists and other experts and train them to be primary and secondary school teachers. So we can concentrate on how to teach.”. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

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What a Summer Prototype Taught Us About Measuring Quality in an Unbundled Education System

Edsurge

A growing number of states and local communities are examining how to shift to student-centered, competency-based learning systems. The Every Student Succeeds Act begins to create room for states to use a more expansive set of learning providers and to report student success in a variety of ways.

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Transforming Physicists, Engineers into Teachers at New MIT Program

MindShift

“We don’t have to focus on math, because they’re already good at math,” said Yoon Jeon Kim, a research scientist in MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab who is monitoring the effort to see how well it works. “We So we can concentrate on how to teach.”. So we can concentrate on how to teach.’ Yoon Jeon Kim, MIT Teaching Systems Lab.

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How AR and VR Prepare Students for Jobs of the Future (and Save Districts Money)

Edsurge

How did you choose the right system for your district? Employers talk a lot about how millennials lack soft skills, how this generation doesn’t know how to interact with people. Whether you’re post-secondary or secondary, you have access to that money. Funding sources for zSpace learning labs.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

After all, Amazon knows how to run online marketplaces; Amazon knows how to sell texts. The book packaged the ideas he’d developed during his time in the Blair Administration and at McKinsey & Company on how to successfully manage policy reform efforts. And I’d never gotten my Ph.D. Neither of these are progressive trends.

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