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Finding ‘Personalized Learning’ and Other Edtech Buzzwords on the Gartner Hype Cycle

Edsurge

Today’s most hyped phrase, personalized learning, is nearing Gartner’s peak of inflated expectations among the chattering class of education thought leaders and philanthropists. What is personalized learning? Slope of Enlightenment: Competency-Based Learning. Competency-based learning is one of these.

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Four Ways to Redefine Parent Teacher Conferences—With a Little Help from Ironman

Edsurge

Kiddom's student experience. Three student-centered strategies. Edtech requires student buy-in too. How to integrate social emotional learning —plus a guide to SEL. How to implement blended learning —plus a guide to blended learning. Curriculum development for self-paced instruction.

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Does Presence Equal Progress? Tracking Engagement in Online Schools

Edsurge

The practice of funding public schools and assessing student engagement based on a student’s physical attendance is rooted in this definition and has only reinforced what is an outmoded idea. Student engagement and personalization remain at the heart of my work.

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A school where you can’t fail — it just takes you longer to learn

The Hechinger Report

The only goal is to learn the material, sooner or later. For struggling students, there is ample practice, until they get it. The strategy looks different in every classroom, as does the material that students must master. They get frequent updates on which skills they’ve learned and which ones they need to acquire.

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