eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Proponents of online learning highlight its flexibility and accessibility. Research suggests that online platforms offer opportunities for personalized learning, catering to diverse learning styles and paces. One advantage of online learning is its flexibility.

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MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2018

This story about personalized learning was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The effects of mental health are not restricted to the teachers but in turn impact the students they teach, leading to poor academic outcomes, poor student discipline, and higher dropout rates. Thus, each student learns by trial and error, proceeding further up on the learning ladder only when they have fully mastered the rung below.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

As with all League meetings, district leaders rolled up their sleeves and committed to bringing actionable steps back to their districts to foster genuine curiosity and a love of learning in all students. They also identified new partnerships they will continue with researchers, companies, and fellow League districts.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school. What you learn in a regular high school in a year, you could learn here in six months.”. Some students reported finishing a course in two weeks. Photo: Linh Tat for The Hechinger Report.

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techlearning

JULY 2, 2018

Genesis Innovative School (Ala.) – for implementing full-time, statewide virtual school opportunities to provide students with rigorous online courses in a learning model that meets their individual needs. For details about this year’s winners, their programs, and how they are using FuelEd solutions, visit [link].

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

They categorize prior knowledge into declarative and procedural types, assessing their influence on students’ success in university science courses. It’s evident that prior knowledge is not just a static backdrop but a dynamic factor that interacts with various elements of the learning process.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time. In addition to causing learning gaps, absenteeism also has budget implications. Her organization recommends that attendance is taken for every in-person and virtual instructional experience.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2018

Related: Using vocational education to teach academic courses. But Hidalgo points to the statistics: good jobs for adults with a high school diploma alone or for high school dropouts are disappearing. “We Local businesses are getting involved, too, with professionals helping teachers create activities that simulate their work.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

That same year K12 rebranded a number of its resources under a separate legal entity called Fuel Education, focusing on “personalized learning” platforms, as well as consulting, teacher professional development, and online courses. Udell most recently served as CEO of Catapult Learning Inc.,

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

It’s all part of a statewide push to “personalize” learning, giving students more of a say over what — and where — they study. But Goldstein, who helped create a hands-on manufacturing course at Randolph Union in 2014, says “retention is much easier than recruitment.” It recognized that learning can occur anywhere.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

His school and his state are trailblazers in personalized learning, a method that tailors instruction to students’ individual interests and learning speeds. Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. About 20 other states sprinkled elements of personalized learning into their plans.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2017

It also seems that it could increase the dropout rate, as students couldn’t see any end to retaking courses. However, as every district is creating its own assessments, this alone calls the law’s existence into question. So why has Maine jumped in as the first state to mandate this ill-defined “experiment”?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

And while the No Child Left Behind education law made it hard to use anything but multiple-choice-based standardized tests, its replacement, the Every Student Succeeds Act, opens the door for a course correction – or at least it unlocks that door. The new education law creates an opening for states to change course.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Whiddon Rogers serves as a bridge program to decrease the dropout rate through credit recovery and diploma acquisition. When we shift elements of control over to our students we risk slowing down the pace of learning, digressing to pathways that take us off course and in some cases increasing discipline issues.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2022

These classes also open the door to self-paced personalized learning. Today, edtech companies are actively working on taking digitization even further by converting the traditional LMS into an intelligent learning platform (ILP). Intelligent learning platform benefits for K-12 schools. Lower dropout rates.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2017

It is features like these that have helped former high school dropouts like Rocheli Burgos — and other students who have struggled in school — get a second chance at earning a diploma. After giving birth to her son in 2011, Burgos dropped out of her old school when counselors told her that she didn’t have enough credits to pass ninth grade.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Hernandez, a 33-year-old mother of four and high school dropout, had already overcome an array of obstacles on her nearly five-year journey. “No No matter how much I studied, I was failing,” Hernandez said, recalling the pediatric and medical-surgical care course that almost felled her. “I I was just so frustrated.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

And Shayla Savage, a middle school principal, said that when her students returned to in-person learning this spring, she noticed differences beyond just their math and reading progress compared to previous years. “We Even with the physical aspect of school, the learning loss is real all across the board.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

In the traditional model, students need to pass a specific set of courses to graduate. Related: Tipping point: Can summit put personalized learning over the top? As an example, Pearson offers a course in the criminal justice program. Related: Massachusetts districts now trade notes on best paths to personalized learning.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Over the past decade, school officials in Fulton County, Georgia’s fourth-largest school district, have experimented with so-called personalized learning , tried integrating English language learners into mainstream classes, and introduced high school-level courses in middle school. Her voice trailed off.

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IAD Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Learning analytics has been a hot topic for a while in the education industry. Not by chance, learning analytics and all its related technologies (measuring learning, artificial intelligence, adaptive learning, personalized learning, etc.) have been part of the “Horizon Report” for a while.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2019

For the last three years in a row, it has been 97 percent, and the superintendent attributes the whole of that increase to the district’s efforts to personalize learning. At the heart of personalized learning is building a positive relationship with every student, every single day.”. Sign up for our newsletters.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

A children’s hospital isn’t a place where families expect to find outstanding learning opportunities. But PedsAcademy adds personalized learning to the personalized medicine at Nemours. It was in English, of course — not his native Tagalog — and he found it bewildering.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

They are developing a recommendation engine to leverage dropout rate data to predict and design interventions for at-risk students. After intervening and supporting approximately 16,000 students, dropout rates have decreased and test scores have improved. Cornell University Uses the AWS Cloud to Reimagine Course Delivery.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 4, 2015

Of course, this was me standing over her on the deck while she read, not a formal presentation, but I was trying to make the case to her how you learn is more important than what you know. Or learning disabilities. College is just a word. This whole education-to-life connection is a bit murky. College isn’t for everybody.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik. FRAMINGHAM, Mass.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

One way the school has tried to encourage students’ to keep their options open is by introducing college seminar-style classes like the Genocide Studies course, currently an honors-level elective. English teacher Justin Bilton and history teacher Jason Stark created and team-teach the class.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

The Greenfield model uses some rather commonplace strategies, such as integrating online learning, small-group instruction and greater parental and community involvement. Where the model pushes boundaries is in the addition of learning experiences called “expeditions.” These are not field trips.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2017

That reading deficit slows their learning in every other subject. It also limits the usefulness of closed captioning for multimedia course material. You would think it would be easier, with all the amazing animation in movies. But once a movie is made, it’s frozen in time. The avatar must respond to the immediate situation.

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Assistive Technology Blended Learning Report Data 68

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Adaptive learning technology is the new go-to for personalized learning. Diagnostic products and software systems that target specific areas of learning for improvement can help students find success, freeing educators to help every learner reach their personal best within one classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Currently, students are recommended for involuntary virtual learning by the principal, she said, and these placements are tracked aggregately along with suspensions, which makes identifying the particular impact of virtualization difficult. She watched as they fell behind in everything from academic courses to physical education.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

High school students could take college courses in Middletown with a certified adjunct professor. Three-credit courses were $1,200 each, a major discount, but only about 50 low-income students were participating. You take a personal interest,” says Keith. “It Connecting Every Student to Personalized Learning.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

High school students could take college courses in Middletown with a certified adjunct professor. Three-credit courses were $1,200 each, a major discount, but only about 50 low-income students were participating. You take a personal interest,” says Keith. ’” Connecting Every Student to Personalized Learning. "This

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Related: Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff. Over a span of three weeks, Navarro helped Jason get his grades up to at least a 50 so he would qualify for summer school and not have to repeat courses the following year. They’ve been through a lot,” said Rubio. They need a mentor.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Danusis and her teaching staff practice personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach, usually aided by laptops, that has become a reformist calling card in education. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. It looks unlike any school I ever attended. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

The coronavirus has in many ways become an unprecedented test for teacher-student relationships, forcing a readjustment of expectations without daily check-ins and in-person interaction, without tissues for tears, high-fives for a job well done or praise in front of classmates.

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