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Million-Dollar Advice: The High Cost and Limited Return on Personalized Learning Consulting

Edsurge

Follow education technology-reform projects, and you’ll find mixed academic outcomes and expensive consultants. Turning to Consultants to Parse-Out Personalized Learning The concept of using technology to personalize the learning experience has been gaining appeal among educators seeking solutions in struggling schools. Probably not.

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Coronavirus is poised to inflame inequality in schools

The Hechinger Report

According to the latest survey data from the Pew Research Center, 73 percent of adults have broadband internet at home. If entire K-12 districts move online, what can schools expect of early elementary schoolers? CoSN members have been turning to each other for advice and support about how to approach coronavirus and virtual learning.

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Communications Tips for School Leaders

Edsurge

Think about how to use Twitter, surveys, and town-hall style meetings for your communications. At a minimum you want to consider school leaders, teachers, students and parents but there may be more audiences to think about or more ways to split them up (for example you might want different messages for your secondary vs elementary teachers).

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In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

Digital Promise

An increasing amount of data around personalized educational models like "blended learning" and content-specific software suggests that edtech makes instruction in diverse classrooms more efficient. This summer, in fact, we finished the two-year opt-in period for blended learning at the elementary level. blended learning).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Hechinger Report : “How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education.” ” Also via The Hechinger Report : “The future of proficiency-based education.” Via The New York Times : “ New York to Shorten Standardized Tests in Elementary and Middle Schools.”