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Does the future of schooling look like Candy Land?

The Hechinger Report

Teachers used those colorful pathways in a competency-based system to track what each student had learned — and hadn’t learned — in real time. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report.

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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report. With about a day planning, [teachers] shift right into distance learning,” Rooney said. Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report Washington Elementary is a K-8 school in Lindsay, an agricultural community in California’s Central Valley. Ushering in a new model.

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What Happens When Students Work at Their Own Pace

Digital Promise

For the 2014-15 school year, Piedmont Middle School, in rural northeast Alabama, reimagined how its students learn by letting them progress based on their mastery of skills and standards. ” one teacher reported hearing from her students. Every student receives a laptop for school and home.

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Innovative School District Seeks Middle School Science and Social Studies Apps

Digital Promise

WHAT: Piedmont Middle School is seeking to pilot digital learning programs that support competency-based learning in science and social studies. For more information about the district, watch this short documentary: Changing a Rural Community’s Expectations Through 24/7 Learning. Web-based preferred.

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

The Hechinger Report

This gives them experience with a process, known as competency-based learning, that a growing number of primary and secondary schools where they’ll eventually teach are beginning to adopt. The International Association for K-12 Online Learning urged in December that competency-based learning be expanded.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The Horizon Report. 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. But as the ed-tech sector is never willing to let a bad idea die, the report will live on. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. with Pigeons. Collared Dove.

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What a blended learning classroom really looks like: An urban teacher’s reboot

The Hechinger Report

Student learner pathways are customized based on students’ strengths, weaknesses and goals; and learning experiences vary. Competency based learning allows students to increase ownership and responsibility in their learning and choice in their pacing. Students also have the ability to work at their own pace.