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What’s the Difference Between Project- and Challenge-Based Learning, Anyway?

Edsurge

Here’s a quick exercise for those in education: What do the letters CBL stand for? For many, competency-based learning might have been the first thing to pop in their heads. But others might have considered challenge-based, community-based or even case-based learning. Department of Education.

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Curriculum Design is Emotional Work—This Teacher Makes It Easier

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Beginning that very first year in my Algebra classroom, I've strived to make it easier for educators to design their own curriculum. Khan Academy videos coupled with IXL exercises aligned to standards we were learning in class. To somewhat quote Darth Vader, I found the lack of quality edtech curriculum deeply disturbing.

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Why a K-12 Operating System is the Next Step in the Evolution of Edtech

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Yes, this was before Google Classroom existed!) If students missed class or needed additional help, they could go to my website and access the day’s lesson as well as videos and digital exercises from YouTube and Khan Academy. Abbas Manjee's standards-based Algebra 1 scope and sequence. Full size image here.

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

The Hechinger Report

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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