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Personalized Learning “Twister”: A Future of Learning Live Demo in Dallas

EdNews Daily

If you ask a dozen educators to define personalized learning, you’ll no doubt get some enthusiastic answers, and all twelve will probably be different. The new-school answer to the definition of personalized learning is markedly different. Lectures are now scheduled events or meet-ups.

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To Jeff Bezos: 7 Suggestions for Enhancing Preschool Education, From a Former Montessori Teacher

Edsurge

Maria Montessori created a curriculum for individualized, competency-based learning a century before any of these terms became buzzwords. I am pretty sure if Maria were alive today, she too would love this cute wooden robot. Luckily, this is a great fit for the project-based nature of the Montessori class.

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K-12 Educators and Administrators: Share Your Ed-tech Pilot Approach

Digital Promise

Do you think others could learn from the way you conduct ed-tech pilots to inform product decisions? Digital Promise is crowdsourcing best practices for piloting learning technology tools, and we want to hear from you! And, we’ll highlight the best examples from across the country on our website for others to learn from.

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Teaching in the Era of Bots: Students Need Humans Now More Than Ever

Edsurge

In this context, educators must be especially mindful that our uses of technology do not undermine meaningful learning. Relationships underpin all of the “Big Six” experiences, which include “a professor who made me excited about learning” and “professors who cared about me as a person.”

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What Happens When Students Work at Their Own Pace

Digital Promise

We hear a lot about the need for students to “learn at their own pace.” 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. Lessons learned.

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What Happens When Students Work at Their Own Pace

Educator Innovator

Schools wanting to adopt competency-based learning may have a challenging time doing so due to inconsistent policies nationwide and very few models to follow. Students take computer programming, robotics, and foreign language courses that, until recently, weren’t offered.” ” By Jason Tomassini.

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How One University is Working to ‘Humanize’ Online Teaching

Edsurge

For those teaching online courses, professors at California State University at Channel Islands have some advice: don’t be a robot. No one wants to feel like a cog in the wheel, especially not when it comes to something as personal as learning. EdSurge: I wanted to talk about your Humanizing Online Learning training course.