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Generative Textbooks

Iterating Toward Openness

By definition, our lack of imagination is the only limit on our ability to use these tools in novel ways. I continue to try to imagine ways generative AI can impact teaching and learning, including learning materials like textbooks. After I have answered all the questions, give me feedback on my answers again.’

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#8: 7 tips to better define personalized learning

eSchool News

Personalized learning is a pretty well-known term, but educators have different definitions for personalized learning, making for a sometimes-confusing approach to its implementation. Targeted instruction: Instruction aligns to specific student needs and learning goals.

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Why Santa Fe Broke the K-12 Model and Chose a Different Curriculum for the Middle Grades

Edsurge

And they found MidSchoolMath —much to the delight of Erica Wheeler, Lead Instructional Materials Coordinator for Santa Fe Public Schools. This definitely fits into that. Students in Ms. You need a teacher who knows how to facilitate that, but these materials are really designed for it.

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Want to Boost Reading Scores? Build Silent Reading Stamina.

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Commonlit is a source for free, high-quality instructional materials designed to support literacy development (grades 3-12.). The definitive resource on literacy development and developmentally responsive literacy instruction, PreK-8! Besides, adds Gehsmann, “reading is a wonderful source of pleasure and enjoyment.”

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Let Learners Get in Their Zone (of Proximal Development)

Edsurge

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. But just because each student has different needs does not mean that educators should move the goal post.

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29 K-12 edtech predictions for 2021

eSchool News

When we posted our 2020 predictions on January 1 last year, we–along with the majority of the world–definitely didn’t anticipate the curveball that was (and continues to be) the global COVID-19 pandemic. 2020 has been called a dumpster fire, the worst year in recent memory, and more. education system.

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Why the Pandemic Forces Administrators to Rethink Attendance — and Interoperability

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A binary data capture system that fails to incorporate measures of engagement and participation no longer suffices to characterize a student’s presence at school. From California to Connecticut , legislation is being written and revised to specifically tie attendance to learners’ documented interaction with instructional material.

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