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How to make competency-based education possible through an intelligent learning platform

Neo LMS

What matters the most is to equip students with future-ready skills to become well-rounded adults ready to thrive in their lives and careers. Even in groups as small as 15 to 20 students, it’s next to impossible to keep in mind each student’s weak points and take action. However, the same applies to school teachers.

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The Power of Place: Exploring the Future of Readiness in a Local Context

Edsurge

These shifts require us to look beyond our current definitions of readiness and redefine what today’s young people will need to thrive in the future. And because every community is unique, each one needs to work to enhance its students’ readiness for further learning, work and life in its own way. Action Ideas.

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The Meaning of Words

A Principal's Reflections

Certain words jump right out at me such as grit, innovation, branding, mindset, future ready, deeper learning, and personalization. The perception that rigor only applies to a certain group is near-sighted at best. This is my view of rigor. Herein lies another point of confusion with the word.

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How Does Your Community Know?

Tom Murray

We could possibly be the only profession on the planet where every group that makes a judgment on what we do thinks they’re an expert because at some point in their lives, they’ve been a part of what we do. Their modeling is at the core of the definition of leadership. Their wording is purposeful.

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Reimagining Human Capital to Support the Needs of School Districts

edWeb.net

Pointing to this research, Tony Bagshaw, Chief Learning Officer of Battelle for Kids, said that the conversations that need to take place among stakeholder groups should center around the key competencies districts desire in teachers and administrative leaders. Diversity includes a range of areas—age, gender, race, thought, etc.

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How a Middle School Library Promotes Maker Learning for All Students

Digital Promise

Mark: This is perfectly aligned with micro-credentials we are exploring to support our Future Ready Librarians framework. One really impressive game is called “The Struggles Are Real,” designed by a group of 8th grade girls to help people empathize with teenagers. The following is an edited transcript of that conversation.

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Effective Digital Citizenship Education

The CoolCatTeacher

I’ve worked very closely with the department chair for that group, and we’ve really woven in a whole other level of citizenship that talks about what it means to be a citizen online. It’s definitely a work in progress. An exciting example: privacy and security. So let me give you a quick example. How are you doing that? Vicki: Yes.