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Today’s Innovations are Tomorrow’s Practices: Adapting Learning to Meet Students

Digital Promise

Essentially, every student should have a personalized learning plan which will help to enrich family and community engagement. Jean Tower, Director of Media and Digital Learning at Needham Public Schools, Massachusetts. Nick Williams, CTO, Bartholomew School District, Indiana.

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Unlocking the Spectrum of Learning: The Multi-Faceted Magic of Personalization

A Principal's Reflections

It is also important to point out the following: You don’t need technology to personalize learning. Putting all kids on a device simultaneously and having them watch a video or work on an adaptive learning tool is not personalization. There is not one best or right way to personalize. The rest is now history.

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How does an intelligent learning platform help teachers create a truly personalized learning environment?

Neo LMS

Using edtech to personalize education for students is already something that many educators do by incorporating technology in teaching activities , such as: Learning management systems (LMSs). Video conferencing tools. Students’ individual learning goals. Flexible teaching strategies and adaptive learning.

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K–12 Departments Work Collaboratively to Support New Pedagogies

EdTech Magazine

A 2017 Medium post from the Office of Educational Technology laments the lack of clarity about the term “personalized learning”: “The lack of a consistent definition and language for a relatively complex idea has hampered both understanding and effective ­implementation,” the article states. K–12 Departments Must Find Common Ground.

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Curriculum Design is Emotional Work—This Teacher Makes It Easier

Edsurge

Despite the immense amount of work involved, my colleagues and I fine-tuned our curriculum every year based on student skill gaps and results from formative assessments. It’s a curriculum tool designed specifically to offer teachers the flexibility they need to meet the needs of 21st century students.

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How colleges are adapting to the future of education

Linways Technologies

These programs are of high demands as there are more people shifting careers and need skills that they haven’t learned in college. Adaptive learning would be a necessary skill to have in the future. We need to learn continuously in order to stay relevant and react to the shifts and advancements of the industry.

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What Does a School Need to Enable Learning Based on Student Competency?

MindShift

A CompetencyWorks report, “Maximizing Competency Education and Blended Learning: Insights from Experts,” looks at ways that the movement for personalization dovetails with blended learning and competency-based learning to achieve a more student-centered approach to school.