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Personalized Learning Requires Flexibility: An Update to Education Elements’ Core 4

Education Elements

I got to choose the topic and knew that I’d have to develop a thesis, and I knew the defense of that thesis would have to be sourced from far more than textbooks - it had me scouring local libraries and whatever I could find on Webcrawler at the time (my friend told me about a site called Google that was pretty good but I thought the name was weird (..)

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If You Build It, They Will Create: Designing Maker Mindsets in Our Classrooms

Education Elements

I recently had the opportunity to design and build a maker space for educators to implement making and tinkering in their libraries and classrooms. All my dolls had their own custom- made furniture and Lego cars.

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Framework: Ed Elements Provides Model, Plan, Hand-holding

Edsurge

Separate from its Playbook that helps define a vision, Education Elements , a consulting firm, helps schools and districts design next-generation teaching and learning models. The Ed Elements consultants help craft plans that work with their users’ needs and budgets. Tool: Education Elements Puts It All in One Place.

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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.” ” Student workers at the University of Chicago’s library have voted to unionize.