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Toilet Paper Hands: Empowering Students With Skills-Based Economic Education to Accelerate Financial Literacy

eSchool News

The learning resources provide comprehensive instruction with practice materials to reinforce the lessons and help students achieve optimal outcomes. The complete multimedia learning system is designed as a financial competencies-based learning resource for educators. EDUTAINMENT MEETS FINTECH.

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To Connect Classes to Careers, Consider Erasing Grade Levels

Edsurge

Three years ago, this began the transformation of Kankakee’s general education track into the College and Career Academy, which is 100 percent focused on using with PBL to prepare students for future jobs. With our new focus, we are one of 10 high school districts in Illinois that have started to move to competency-based learning.

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Project-Based Learning Is Just the Beginning

techlearning

Each grade has a designated career cluster they focus on, and as students move through the grades, they explore a wide variety of career opportunities. In addition, we are one of 10 high school districts in Illinois that has started to move to competency-based learning.

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The Trends and Challenges Shaping Technology Adoption In Schools

MindShift

An increasing number of educators are finding that collaborative, hands-on learning requires a different type of space than most traditional classrooms offer, and that the learning environment greatly impacts both pedagogy and student engagement. CHALLENGES.

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Why Flipped Learning should be standard for Higher Education

Neo LMS

The name was Horace Mann and the time was the Industrial Revolution. As we all know, the Industrial Revolution was all about discipline, standardization and conformity. The problem is, these values won’t cut it in the knowledge-based economy we’re now living. Read more: What is competency-based learning?

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

CENTRALREACH PK-12 ( www.centralreach.com/industry/pk-12-education ) CentralReach launches CentralReach PK-12, a collaborative and data-driven software for special education. The software helps schools foster communication and coordination of instruction and care for students in special education programs. for middle school.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I

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