Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

Blended learning in credit-recovery courses and alternative schools—areas where students would often have no brick-and-mortar options—has gotten a bad rap because of questions about the rigor of the online learning experience. From classroom to classroom the models were the same and the culture was strong, tight and consistent.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

It was really in the ‘80s and the ‘90s that the first satellite distance learning programs came up,” she adds, meaning students could sit in classrooms connected via interactive satellite TV. Back then, everything was asynchronous by default. “It At first, such synchronous teaching was expensive and cumbersome.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

One is an expansion of a coalition of schools that share best practices, called the League of Innovative Schools; the other is a comprehensive report on the ways that competency-based learning initiatives have grown in the six New England states. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

. — On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. Teachers rarely stand at the front of the classroom.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

And, we’ll highlight the best examples from across the country on our website for others to learn from. That’s why we’re working with these six districts: to follow along and share what they learn about piloting learning technology tools in classrooms. Manager of Blended Learning.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2016

The goal of the event was to focus on the practical elements of blended and personalized learning by surfacing the tactics that practitioners were deploying in the trenches. Here are six change management strategies that practitioners stressed as vital to driving new models of learning across traditional systems: 1. Open doors.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

The program follows six key tenets: project-based learning, learner agency, whole person development, blended learning and competency-based assessment. Each student is assigned an individualized learning schedule that involves group work or one-on-one interventions with a teacher.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 27, 2015

In the background knowledge-building phase of learning, for example. Or in a “flipped classroom” setting where the “lecture” is designed to be consumed at the student’s own pace (using viewing strategies , for example). Learning through projects. Problem-based learning.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 18, 2015

In March, Tom Loveless, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, took an outdated swipe at the logic behind moving toward a student-centered learning system. Instead, we asserted broadly that students had varying learning needs and used learning styles as a device to illustrate the point. What he sees might surprise.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

I actually find that there is a medium amount of consistency: It could certainly be better, but there is much more consistency about competency education than about other ideas that have been introduced into the world of education. Remember: Students are always at different places in their learning.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Redesigning Learning Spaces: Panelists identified changing learning spaces as a trend that educators and district leaders have embraced for quite some time and which is likely to continue. Technology could be a productive part of this shift by changing where and how students engage with learning.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

MARCH 10, 2020

Instead of ranking them in order of importance, or even in the order I actually read them, I have put them in what I think would be the most useful reading sequence that would best grow one's CBE knowledge as well as help you strategically plan for implementation in your own classroom, school or district.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

Yes, this was before Google Classroom existed!) At the time, I had no idea this system was called “standards-based grading.” I was so green at this point in my career that I probably assumed every classroom in the 21st century operated this way. They bought a learning management system (LMS) and asked us to start using it.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Moheeb is part of a new program that is challenging the way teachers and students think about academics, and his school is one of hundreds that have done away with traditional letter grades inside their classrooms. The strategy looks different in every classroom, as does the material that students must master. The students at M.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

Fields said the app enabled regular contact with all parents — to discuss grades or attendance issues, for example — not just those who speak English. In the classroom, computer-based programs can give students additional support as they work to master the vocabulary and mechanics of English. The actual execution is limited.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

The only students here now are in photos, like the one of a VLACS graduation ceremony that hangs in a classroom turned conference room. Related: Rhode Island’s lively experiment in blended learning. After all, I live with a perfect example.”. A week later, there’s a follow-up call. Related: School choice on steroids.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

At least 10 states now permit students to take classes part-time online (and sometimes in other in-person classrooms), instead of being limited to their local course offerings; eight adopted or considered laws in just the last four years. They want them at school learning. She said that although no more than 1 or 2 percent of U.S.

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