EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

As personalized learning continues to gain momentum across the U.S., more states, districts and schools are moving toward a competency-based education system that focuses on individualized learning and classroom equity. Students advance upon demonstrated mastery, not based on time.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

It’s no longer what happens in the learning environment, but what happens when edtech comes into the mix and how we can enrich that environment. Here are a few ideas on using edtech to promote growth mindset: Showing progress through competency-based learning. Read more: The PROs and CONs of competency-based learning.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

That doesn’t mean that we can’t apply these principles online, but they need to be adjusted with the right activities. 5 More principles of effective online instruction. Online learning emphasizes the importance of student ownership, but that shouldn’t mean leaving them entirely to their own devices.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

But what about CEO and founder Sal Khan’s broader goal of changing the education system, by basing it more on mastery learning, not grades? We need integration with our rostering systems. So the system will know, okay, student A is part of teacher B's classroom. How is that part going? We need training.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Read more: What works for tracking student progress in online learning. It’s easy to get lost in analytics related to assignments and honestly, you don’t need to learn about all of them to get a good idea about what’s happening with your students. NEO Guide: Competency-based learning. Assessment analytics.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 21, 2022

That’s why the education system needs to understand that children are not born with these skills. In this article, we’ll discuss executive functioning skills and their importance as well as ways to teach them with the help of your learning management system (LMS). What are the most important executive functioning skills?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2022

What should come next is an examination of how schools can more deeply and deliberately harness technology to make high-quality learning accessible to every learner, even in the wake of a crisis. That means a digital transformation, with three key levers for change: in the classroom, in schools and at the systems level.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 9, 2022

If you teach using a learning management system (LMS) you most likely add all your classes to the platform. Moreover, when the competencies are set, students can self-monitor their learning, see their quiz results, and check their progress. Organize classes. We have all become digital teachers—there’s no doubt about that.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

What’s more, the framework will also help surface unanswered research questions on where we need better guidance to serve individual learners in particular circumstances—not on-average research-based findings. There is a significant body of research on how kids vary in how they learn best. Competency-based learning is one of these.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This impedes kids from understanding how systems work, how things fit together, how people of different ages interact and how ideas are generated and disseminated. But are those skills and subject-segregated methods still the ones our students need to make sense of interdependent global systems and phenomena that evolve at lightning speed?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

Mastery-Based Learning is an excellent choice in these situations: If your traditional system of learn the material, take a test, move on isn’t working. If you use a system that spirals learning (like Everyday Math ), or circles back constantly on specific skills. What is MBL.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

The pandemic forced school systems across the world to move to virtual platforms for teaching and learning. Still, educators tend to be preconditioned to assign grades — not necessarily because we believe they best reflect our assessments of student learning and development but because our grading practices are what we are used to.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

Meanwhile, shifting to an asynchronous approach, such as threaded discussions in a learning management system, may benefit shy students, because they will “have the ability to think in detail what you want to say and respond,” Siemens says. In a 2010 meta-analysis of online-learning research compiled by the U.S.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

Enter competency-based learning (CBE), a term introduced in the 1970s when the U.S. Since then, CBE has trickled down into the K-12 system, where enthusiasm and support have led to statewide policies supporting the development of such programs in regions like New England. Julia Freeland Fisher.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

No one wants to feel like a cog in the wheel, especially not when it comes to something as personal as learning. They share how teaching online can involve a surprising amount of passion—and even some tears. EdSurge: I wanted to talk about your Humanizing Online Learning training course. That's where I found Michelle.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2019

You can imagine how helpful it would be if teachers and computer systems could detect which students are likely to spin-their-wheels. The tool relied on publically released data from Carnegie Learning.) As it turns out, wheel-spinning can be detected “in an early stage with high accuracy.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

We don’t have to focus on math, because they’re already good at math,” said Yoon Jeon Kim, a research scientist in MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab who is monitoring the effort to see how well it works. “We Yoon Jeon Kim, MIT Teaching Systems Lab. It advertised on the Boston public transit system.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2015

As the public education system evolves toward supporting students’ personalized needs, online learning tools have emerged that allow teachers to customize instruction. Gooru’s enhanced, free K-12 content will support a variety of innovative educational models and facilitate the growth of competency-based learning.”.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

In 2011, Rubin and Kern co-authored and released, Designing The Future of Learning, a white paper focused on the transformation taking place in the educational system. The company offered three main types of support that align with its thesis: school design, school model implementation support, and systems design and implementation.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

Blended learning in credit-recovery courses and alternative schools—areas where students would often have no brick-and-mortar options—has gotten a bad rap because of questions about the rigor of the online learning experience. The school’s graduating class this summer had an 89.8

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MindShift

JANUARY 18, 2018

We don’t have to focus on math, because they’re already good at math,” said Yoon Jeon Kim, a research scientist in MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab who is monitoring the effort to see how well it works. “We Yoon Jeon Kim, MIT Teaching Systems Lab. It advertised on the Boston public transit system.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 12, 2018

.” Not listed: other online degrees simply aren’t hyped the way MOOCs are. “ FutureLearn Looking To Raise £40m, Announces a MOOC-based BA,” says Class Central. “ WeWork Helps Online Learning Take its Next Step Forward,” according to the Clayton Christensen Institute’s Michael Horn.

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MindShift

MARCH 25, 2015

Three main ways schools are attempting this work are through technology use, an emphasis on personalizing learning and moving toward a mastery-based or competency-based evaluation system. The report also identifies some key system changes that would support the grass-roots work that has already begun.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. which powers universities' disciplinary record systems, pleaded guilty last month to conspiring to hack into the computer systems of competitors and steal their information.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 26, 2016

COMPETENCY BASED LEARNING. Littky doesn’t believe the current university system serves many students well. While some of the College Unbound program is online, it’s very different from the self-paced, hands off model of more well known e-learning programs. Everyone says students must be college ready.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A bill backed by President Trump and announced Wednesday aims to reduce overall legal immigration by half while putting in place a new points-based system for applicants for employment-based green cards that would privilege graduates of American universities.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

They get frequent updates on which skills they’ve learned and which ones they need to acquire. Mastery-based learning, also known as proficiency-based or competency-based learning, is taking hold across the country. Advocates respond that the current education system is not working.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

The middle school has started using an online system to guide self-paced learning, and Ms. STUDENT-CENTERED LEARNING Another term for personalized learning, but tending to emphasize the needs of individual students rather than the goals of the teacher, school or district.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

After clawing his way through college, however, he had a distinguished career in education — first as a middle school science teacher (where he and Bette met), then as a long-time member and chair of New Hampshire’s state board of education, and now as president of the nonprofit National Center for Competency-Based Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

They want them at school learning. In perhaps a reflection of where online learning is headed, both Bagley and Grover now run blended-learning schools that they say offer the best of both worlds — the personalization of an online school with the in-person interactions of a traditional school.).

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