Place Based Education
Archive: 2013
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Personalized Learning
What is Performance Assessment?
Performance assessments are real-world scenarios that reflect the ambiguity of real-world challenges. They require higher-order thinking and problem solving. They are concluded with authentic performance. Projects are the most common performance assessment. The tools to support projects and track academic development are (slowly) getting better . Transparent evaluation criteria: the learning outcomes drive the creation of the task.
EdTech
12 Days of a Blended Christmas
Merry Christmas to our Getting Smart readers. Written by the Getting Smart staff, we'd like to share our own version of the 12 Days of Christmas with all of you.
Personalized Learning
Christmas Carol: Blended Learning Opportunities
This year, Susan Lucille Davis shook things up a bit and explored Dickens’s story by blending a number of venues, both online and face-to-face, that we use to learn today: performance, reading and discussion, interactive games, research, and experience.
EdTech
Short Cycle Efficacy Trials Key to Personalized Learning
This fall the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation made grants of $1.3 million for short cycle efficacy trials. Three “test bed networks” each received $100,000: New Schools for Chicago, NYC iZone, and the Bay Area Innovation Hub. Five platforms shared the balance: BrightBytes, CFY (PowerMyLearning), eSpark, Motion Math, and Common Sense Media.