Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Across the country, schools are adopting new approaches to teaching and learning in order to prepare students for life in a technology-rich world. According to researchers at the University of Chicago , non-cognitive skills include “academic behaviors, academic perseverance, academic mindsets, learning strategies, and social skills.”

Education 120

Education STEM Competency Based Learning Wiki 120

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

Cederick Ellis and Summit Elementary School principal Lakya Taylor-Washington, the bigger asset in going personalized comes down to removing arbitrary grade level assignments and creating “learning labs,” a style of competency-based learning that Summit has been experimenting with since 2015.

Competency Based Learning 80

Competency Based Learning Policies Common Core Elementary 80

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

Maine has long been an innovator in education, stemming back to the Maine Learning Technology Initiative. Now all eyes are on our corner of the country as we transition from a traditional seat-time high school diploma to a proficiency-based diploma.

System 98

System Assessment Guidelines Meeting 98

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

He and his department leaders analyzed state requirements and national standards like the Common Core to extract the underlying skills they required and then put together a roadmap for students to achieve mastery. Lexus Resendiz, a senior at Benito Juarez Community Academy. More of that change is underway.

Report 91

Report Competency Based Learning Common Core System 91

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called badges a “game-changing strategy.”. Although sometimes talked about as a “movement,” Mozilla’s Open Badges Project was really more of a technical specification, one that was transferred from Mozilla to IMS Global Learning Consortium in 2017. Reader, they were not. In 2013, Pearson paid $7.7

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145