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

EdNews Daily

This breaks up the traditional age/grade groupings to make way for dynamic groupings based on individual progress. 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. Auto-Cohorting.

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New, MIT-based program proposes transforming physicists, engineers into teachers

The Hechinger Report

This gives them experience with a process, known as competency-based learning, that a growing number of primary and secondary schools where they’ll eventually teach are beginning to adopt. The International Association for K-12 Online Learning urged in December that competency-based learning be expanded.

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Transforming Physicists, Engineers into Teachers at New MIT Program

MindShift

This gives them experience with a process, known as competency-based learning, that a growing number of primary and secondary schools where they’ll eventually teach are beginning to adopt. The International Association for K-12 Online Learning urged in December that competency-based learning be expanded.

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How You Can Bring Creativity Back Into Your Classroom With Project-Based Learning

Edsurge

According to a study from Adobe (which an accompanying infographic shown to the right), 82% of college-educated professionals wish they had more exposure to creative thinking as students. Are these freedoms only limited to the area of English Language Arts or Social Studies? Author Study. Social Media Profile Page.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. Indeed, DonorsChoose.org expects teachers to leverage their social media presence in order to fundraise for supplies for their classrooms. The Intel Education Study App has now too been discontinued.

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