Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

Because learning is student-driven rather than teacher-driven, learner-paced rather than unit-paced, technology is critical to the rollout of this approach. Thanks to online tools such as Kiddom , it’s easier than ever to peg student achievement to specific learning standards. What is MBL. What does it look like?

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Khan Academy Learning Competency Based Learning Assessment 188

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2019

Ten years ago, Sal Khan set out to change that with his Khan Academy videos, which let kids replay lessons as many times as they want. Here in education, Khan doesn’t need much introduction. And then it goes into the kind of mastery learning framework of Khan Academy. We use tools as necessary.

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Khan Academy Common Core Assessment EdTech 125

Edsurge

JULY 13, 2016

But what has been left unsaid is how our current system of education works systematically against instilling these skills in students, and how we could naturally embed the development of grit in students—in a way that doesn’t talk explicitly about grit—by moving to a competency-based learning system. Are they despondent?

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Competency Based Learning Khan Academy System Assessment 60

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Early this decade there was perhaps no one person—not even Bergmann or Sams—more associated with flipping the classroom than Sal Khan, due in no small part to the more than 140 million views his Khan Academy videos had racked up by 2012. But to hear Khan tell it, that association was little more than a coincidence of timing.

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Flipped Classroom Khan Academy Learning Video 128

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

JUNE 25, 2018

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. If students missed class or needed additional help, they could go to my website and access the day’s lesson as well as videos and digital exercises from YouTube and Khan Academy.

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System Khan Academy EdTech LMS 118

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Affluent students get to digital tools for creative exploration; poor students get to use theirs for test prep. Purdue boasted that Course Signals increased retention by 21%, making it an incredibly effective tool. CZI took over the engineering of the learning management system from Facebook in 2017.).

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145