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

Edsurge

Slope of Enlightenment: Competency-Based Learning. Alongside personalized learning are a whole heap of concepts that some have declared are a necessary part of personalized learning. Competency-based learning is one of these. But there is a phrase for that: deeper learning.

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Does the future of schooling look like Candy Land?

The Hechinger Report

State leaders from Utah to Michigan to North Carolina are getting more involved in figuring out how to support the expansion of personalized, competency-based learning, she said, although it’s too early to decipher how much of the stimulus money flowing to school districts will go toward these efforts. What’s your strategy?’

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

As education author Alfie Kohn has long argued , homework represents a “second shift” for students, and there’s mixed evidence they get much out of it. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. For the past ten years, every ten months or so, someone would pen an op-ed claiming it was time to ban laptops in the classroom. One Laptop Per Child.

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