Edsurge

MAY 27, 2019

secured a $15 million Series A round to further develop its STEM platform for preschool students. In the language-learning market, Dada raised $255 million in its Series D round. , an online children’s “thinking training platform” ranked second, completing a $40 million Series C round. And VIPThink (????) million).

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

Competency-Based Learning. Competency-Based Education is something I’m hearing more and more about, which is neither bad nor good, but worth understanding more carefully. With that in mind, I started out with the more common, perhaps less exciting examples. New kinds of certification and degrees.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

By far, one of the most popular topics at the iNACOL conference in San Antonio last week was “competency-based learning"; out of the conference's approximately 200 sessions, 35 had the phrase in their title. . What exactly is competency-based learning? Check out Competency Works' description here.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Across the country, schools are adopting new approaches to teaching and learning in order to prepare students for life in a technology-rich world. The ability to apply math concepts to real-world situations is also essential for success in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) careers.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

Cederick Ellis and Summit Elementary School principal Lakya Taylor-Washington, the bigger asset in going personalized comes down to removing arbitrary grade level assignments and creating “learning labs,” a style of competency-based learning that Summit has been experimenting with since 2015.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Or maybe it stemmed from the fact that anyone could get the gist of the teaching idea in the time it takes to rattle off a sound bite. Aaron Sams was one of the original co-founders of the modern flipped-learning movement, and, like Bergmann, he too has crisscrossed the globe giving talks and training teachers.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Sarah never smiled in my classroom. At least not with her eyes. She spoke under her breath. Whispers of words I couldn’t usually hear. She is one of the many students who I remember because despite my best efforts, I wasn’t able to help her see herself as a mathematical thinker, or to build her curiosity and mathematical skills.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

Maine has long been an innovator in education, stemming back to the Maine Learning Technology Initiative. Now all eyes are on our corner of the country as we transition from a traditional seat-time high school diploma to a proficiency-based diploma.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 2, 2018

Focus: STEM. Not specifically an organisation advancing education technology, but rather technology in education, this is nonetheless an important professional resource for teachers of any STEM subjects. Main themes that can be found in their work include personalized and competency based learning, blended and online learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 31, 2018

Over her 25 year career in education research, she has conducted research and evaluation examining blended and online professional development, global education, dual language immersion, and STEM curriculum initiatives, including analysis of international, federal, and state education policy.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Rethinking How Schools Work: Another trend educators have long talked about is the need to make learning more interdisciplinary, interactive and student-driven. Technology could be a productive part of this shift by changing where and how students engage with learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. This subscription-based tuition model doesn’t limit the number of courses you can complete during each 12-week period, enrolling in up to two courses at once, for one flat tuition rate.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2016

So in order to support competency-based learning and move schools away from likes of seat time, standards, and yes, averages, it’s up to educators to help spread the news. Mary Jo Madda ( @MJMadda ) is Senior Editor at EdSurge, as well as a former STEM middle school teacher and administrator.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

Regardless of what subject is taught, teachers can create a pathway-independent rubric regarding the standards students should meet, and the students can decide how they will show the accomplishment of the standards—similar to a competency-based learning model.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2018

Her class is learning about muscles, but instead of watching a video or reading about it in a book, she can move a virtual arm and see an exposed bicep muscle contract. Imagine a high school student in your district. Are engines her thing? She can safely experiment with a virtual torque wrench in a mechanics class.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Over her 25 year career in education research, she has conducted research and evaluation examining blended and online professional development, global education, dual language immersion, and STEM curriculum initiatives, including analysis of international, federal, and state education policy.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

Nearly ten years ago, I started my career in education as a math teacher at a new alternative high school serving over-age, under-credited youth in New York City. My students were labeled “at-risk” of dropping out because they were 16-21 years old and previously unsuccessful in high school.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Over winter break in 2015, I found myself scouring the internet for career alternatives that would take me out of the classroom. I was in my fifth year of teaching at Forest Ridge, an independent all-girls school serving students in grades 5-12 in Bellevue, Wash.,

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM. Juarez is one of six Chicago high schools selected to develop a schoolwide competency-based learning curriculum as part of an Illinois pilot program. More of that change is underway.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The charter school chain was already developing a personalized learning platform to manage its competency-based learning practices when Facebook stepped in , offering to help the software it called Basecamp. CZI took over the engineering of the learning management system from Facebook in 2017.).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

As states around the country try to prepare more students for college and careers, they are working to provide more students with access to advanced classes, particularly in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). We need to step back and start learning what policy environments work in terms of incentivizing the right behavior.

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