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How does an intelligent learning platform help teachers create a truly personalized learning environment?

Neo LMS

If you’re looking for a definition of personalized learning in the Glossary of Educational Reform, you’ll learn that: Personalized learning means addressing the distinct learning needs of each student with the help of different instructional approaches, educational programs, and learning strategies and experiences. .

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Does the future of schooling look like Candy Land?

The Hechinger Report

Teachers used those colorful pathways in a competency-based system to track what each student had learned — and hadn’t learned — in real time. Binders holding student work display the pathway for kindergarten math, which somewhat resembles the Candy Land board game. What’s your strategy?’

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To Connect Classes to Careers, Consider Erasing Grade Levels

Edsurge

Three years ago, this began the transformation of Kankakee’s general education track into the College and Career Academy, which is 100 percent focused on using with PBL to prepare students for future jobs. With our new focus, we are one of 10 high school districts in Illinois that have started to move to competency-based learning.

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Four Ways to Redefine Parent Teacher Conferences—With a Little Help from Ironman

Edsurge

As a former New York City high school teacher, I know that parent-teacher conferences seldom provide parents with enough time to process what their children learned, what they’re interested in, and what needs improvement. And from what we’ve gathered, teachers are constantly looking to empower students to take control of their learning.

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What is an intelligent learning platform for schools and universities?

Neo LMS

These systems also provide assessments, feedback and reporting tools, as well as automation and gamification, among many other features. Therefore, they enable teachers to manage classes, deliver content, evaluate students, check their understanding, give feedback and offer a wide range of features for student engagement. .

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How Improving Student Feedback and Teaching Data Science Restored Our Classroom Culture

Edsurge

The learning environment was tense, my students were angsty and I didn't have the information or strategies to make it better. Little did I know that by 2019 I would find a way to apply the data science strategies I learned as a geologist to bring joy and engagement back to my classroom.

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A school where you can’t fail — it just takes you longer to learn

The Hechinger Report

The only goal is to learn the material, sooner or later. For struggling students, there is ample practice, until they get it. The strategy looks different in every classroom, as does the material that students must master. They get frequent updates on which skills they’ve learned and which ones they need to acquire.

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