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OPINION: Some warning flags for those embracing personalized learning powered by education technology

The Hechinger Report

Personalized apps push well-performing students to the top of the pile by supplying them with more advanced content. In addition, personalized algorithms demonstrate what is known as the Matthew effect: Those who start behind are left behind with their own data — without group power to lift them up.

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Subscriber Special: Group PD at a great price

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June 8th-10th: Discounted Group Professional Development. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. internet safety. Participants in this four-week online class will explore twenty digital tools educators use in their Structured Learning technology curriculum. digital law.

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Subscriber Special: February

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Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching: February 5th-8th: Group Professional Development. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. internet safety. Pick a topic: Tech infused Teacher/Classroom. Writing With Tech.

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Citizenship for Personalized Learning

BYOT Network

This post, written in collaboration with Diana Ryan , is part of a series about the Building Blocks for Personalized Learning. It is necessary to construct the building block of Citizenship within a classroom to better facilitate personalized learning. Personalized learning requires the participation of every student.

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Citizenship for Personalized Learning

BYOT Network

This post, written in collaboration with Diana Ryan , is part of a series about the Building Blocks for Personalized Learning. It is necessary to construct the building block of Citizenship within a classroom to better facilitate personalized learning. Personalized learning requires the participation of every student.

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Tech ed Resources–Online Classes

Ask a Tech Teacher

These can be taught individually (through coaching or mentoring), in small groups (of at least five), as school PD, or through select colleges for grad school credit. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. internet safety. This is a group enrollment via Google Classroom.

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Tech Ed Resources–Certificate/College Credit Classes

Ask a Tech Teacher

All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to know learning is organic and granular. internet safety. internet safety.

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