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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Competency Based Learning Education Blended Learning Common Core 52

Education Elements

JUNE 8, 2016

From 2009 to 2011, following the book’s publication, the Hume Foundation made grants to Rocketship in the Bay Area and Carpe Diem in Yuma, AZ, two charter schools that were already implementing blended learning, to promote their models. Personalized learning is an idea whose time has come. So we were off and running.

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Blended Learning Learning Competency Based Learning Personalized Learning 100

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. You can learn anywhere,” León said.

Online Learning 129

Online Learning How To Competency Based Learning Learning 129

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

In the summer of 2016, a community of educators, research design partners, and over 150 teens and young adults in Colorado engaged in a bold experiment to rethink how quality and impact might be measured in a modernized system of learning. In this relatively small, short-cycle prototype, the lessons we learned were significant.

System 60

System Competency Based Learning Education Assessment 60

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.

Learning 218

Learning Competency Based Learning Video Course 218

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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Competency Based Learning Blended Learning Report Strategy 81

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.

Blended Learning 106

Blended Learning Competency Based Learning Elementary Course 106

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

In the classroom, computer-based programs can give students additional support as they work to master the vocabulary and mechanics of English. The middle school has started using an online system to guide self-paced learning, and Ms. BLENDED LEARNING Any instruction that blends the use of computers with human teachers.

Competency Based Learning 77

Competency Based Learning Common Core Personalized Learning Study 77

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. Innovators stressed that without effective change management, the best technology tools and the most elegant personalized learning models will come up short.

Personalized Learning 68

Personalized Learning Learning Competency Based Learning Blended Learning 68

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.

Learning 106

Learning Common Core System Groups 106

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. Because our education system is built to standardize, not personalize, transforming it through disruptive innovation is critical.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Education Competency Based Learning 40

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

I’m thrilled he wrote it, as I think it holds up a mirror to all of us working in the world of competency-based education about where we can do better. If you don’t understand that the traditional system of education is designed to rank and sort students, then it’s really hard to understand competency-based education.

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Software System Blended Learning Competency Based Learning 85

MindShift

MARCH 25, 2015

Three main ways schools are attempting this work are through technology use, an emphasis on personalizing learning and moving toward a mastery-based or competency-based evaluation system. The report also identifies some key system changes that would support the grass-roots work that has already begun.

Blended Learning 28

Blended Learning Learning Competency Based Learning System 28

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. Read more about blended learning.

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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. Finally, tutoring is available through four “skills coaches.”. Related: School choice on steroids. Virtual Gets Real.

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