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Flipsnack: A fun way to make interactive online magazines #edtech

The CoolCatTeacher

Learn how she uses this tool. FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. Flipsnack: A fun way to make interactive online magazines #edtech. The students were creating the sports…like an ESPN type magazine in FlipSnack.

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K–12 Departments Work Collaboratively to Support New Pedagogies

EdTech Magazine

If you’re reading this magazine, that’s probably something you’re well aware of. Indeed, the concept has been conflated with other educational and ­instructional approaches that integrate technology : adaptive learning, blended ­learning , ­competency-based learning and differentiated learning, to name just a few.

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Use Personalized Learning Tools to Boost Classroom Equity

EdTech Magazine

The number of states with policies in place to promote and facilitate competency-based systems has grown from just a handful in 2004 to 43 states in 2018. For resources and information about competency-based learning systems, visit iNACOL.org. by Wendy McMahon.

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What Public School Teachers Want: Less Disruption

Edsurge

Since the 2008 Time magazine cover story on Washington, D.C. That made fiscal and pedagogical sense. Under the ed reform push to get public money in private hands, some very powerful people want teachers to shut up and do as we are told.

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Interoperability Boosts the Speed of School Communications

EdTech Magazine

Learning Registry acts as a large storeroom of educational resources , which teachers can access easily and use to improve lesson plans and inform decisions when experimenting with new learning initiatives.