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COLUMN: Can we find the solution to middle school math woes in a virtual world?

The Hechinger Report

Instead of memorizing equations, students develop structural reasoning skills from solving real-life problems (such as a damaged power grid or limited hospital-bed capacity in a pandemic) with guidance from teachers trained in the purpose of the lessons. Ninety percent of our resources are not in VR but in teacher training,” she told me.

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What if personalized learning was less about me and more about us?

The Hechinger Report

Chris Berdik/The Hechinger Report. The project typifies the mix of personalized and social learning that’s been a mainstay for 25 years at King, a founding member of a school network called EL Education. But there’s no common definition yet for what personalized learning actually is.”.

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What Will Online Learning Look Like in 10 Years? Zoom Has Some Ideas

Edsurge

Zoom is actually a decade old, and the first conferences launched in 2012, limited to a mere 15 participants. While post-pandemic growth has slowed as schools resume in-person learning, the company is still flush with cash, reporting over $1 billion in revenue in the second quarter of 2021.

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ChatGPT with My Students

User Generated Education

General Ideas for Using ChatGPT in Education ChatGPT, according to ChatGPT, is a variant of the GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) language model that has been specifically designed for generating human-like text for chatbot applications. It becomes about the tool rather than about the pedagogy.

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ISTE 2019: How K–12 Leaders Can Use G Suite for Professional Development

EdTech Magazine

“As we were doing these professional developments and giving all these opportunities to our staff, we had one main concern that we kept hearing over and over again: ‘ I just don’t have the time ,’” Valver told attendees at the International Society for Technology in Education’s 2019 annual conference in Philadelphia. by Eli Zimmerman.

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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. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. Related: Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning.

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What Will Schools Do in the Fall? Here Are 4 Possible Scenarios

Edsurge

What has taken place during the last two-and-a-half months, the authors contend, is “crisis distance learning,” brought on by near-ubiquitous restrictions on movement and stay-at-home orders since March. School staff should use the summer break to pause and catch their breath, and re-evaluate how they approached distance learning this spring.