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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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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. Students take computer programming, robotics, and foreign language courses that, until recently, weren’t offered.

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

Digital Promise

And the programs don’t come with the kind of data our teachers want for the competency-based learning approach we’re taking. We believe our middle school students are ready for more complex projects, including using simulations which require students to program robots to solve challenges. ” Jerry Snow.

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

EdNews Daily

Some people have called parts of this “competency-based learning,” but ideally schools can achieve this shift without altering outcomes in such a holistic way. They can lay their existing lesson plans end-to-end like bricks and already have the basics of personalized workflow learning.

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Identifying the Top Four Challenges in K-12 Education

Digital Promise

Across the country, schools are adopting new approaches to teaching and learning in order to prepare students for life in a technology-rich world. She says students must learn the process for problem solving, which requires more time asking questions before jumping to solutions. Share your thoughts with us on Twitter: @digitalpromise.

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The Trends and Challenges Shaping Technology Adoption In Schools

MindShift

It gives lots of way to facilitate activities at a PTA meeting, at a school board meeting or a local chamber of commerce,” said Keith Kruger, CEO of CoSN. Rethinking How Schools Work: Another trend educators have long talked about is the need to make learning more interdisciplinary, interactive and student-driven.

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3 Core aspects of a personalized learning platform

Neo LMS

The availability of AI technologies, machine learning, robotics and so on is happening much faster than people might expect. 3 Core aspects of a personalized learning platform. The pixie dust tying everything together: Competencies. NEO Guide: Competency-based learning.