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Nope! Why adaptive software is not the same as personalized learning

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Sorry, adaptive software is not the same as personalized learning. We all know that changes in public education move slowly, but there’s one specific educational dilemma we’ve been mired in for decades, with varying levels of rhetoric and hand-wringing: How can we maximize individual student achievement with group instruction?

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How to Differentiate Teaching for the advancement of learner Thinking Skills: Simplifying Approaches to Teaching &Learning Series (Part 5)

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In the current installment, we will see how a cluster of specific thinking skills, that are put forward by both the IBO and contemporary educational research, can surface through differentiated teaching. Acknowledge your learners as individuals through differentiated instruction.

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A Back-to-School, Personalized Learning Toolkit

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This workbook will expand your definition of online curriculum; highlight student and teacher needs and views of implementations; and provide opportunities to help you identify your goals. So we’ve put together a blog of research-based guidelines for choosing edtech tools—from assessment to curriculum software—to use in the classroom.

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How to Differentiate Teaching for the advancement of student Thinking Skills: Simplifying Approaches to Teaching & Learning Series (Part 5)

100mentors

In the current installment, we will see how a cluster of specific thinking skills, that are put forward by both the IBO and contemporary educational research, can surface through differentiated teaching. Acknowledge your students as individual learners through differentiated instruction.

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Renaissance Announces Significant Growth Investment from Blackstone

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The Company’s assessment-driven, integrated instructional ecosystem enables schools and districts to benchmark student progress; teach, plan, and respond to students’ needs in real-time with personalized instruction; and offer supplemental student literacy and math learning software solutions. Goldman Sachs & Co.

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Let Learners Get in Their Zone (of Proximal Development)

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If we’re okay with that soft definition, it will harm students,” he says. Reyes recognizes that personalized learning overlaps with a number of long established instructional philosophies, frameworks and practices. Uppercase PL, in her words, is about using adaptive software to meet the same needs.

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3 Steps to a More Accessible Classroom

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Any classroom teacher will tell you the importance of differentiating instruction and materials for students' diverse needs. The definition of "easy" will depend on the target age. I used closed-captioning with BrainPop Jr. content, ClassDojo videos , GoNoodle, and other phonics or science videos on YouTube.