Archive: 2018
How Machine Learning can Enhance Music Education
Incorporating machine learning techniques into music education can enhance learning and provide students with a richer, more personalized experience. It serves as a particularly interesting case study.
ImBlaze: Igniting Powerful Real-World Learning Experiences
There is a growing national momentum behind having students learn in contexts and at times outside of the traditional school day. This new tool from Big Picture Learning provides a valuable approach for managing these types of experiences.
33 Quality Learning Platforms
Platforms can help educators accomplish a variety of challenging tasks, such as powering personal learning plans, managing assignments, supporting the development of standards-aligned projects, and more. Today we’re recognizing 33 platforms with widespread use and/or distinctive features.
40 Competency-Based Education Publications and Resources
We've been hard at work researching the landscape of competency-based education (CBE). The resources highlighted in this post contain valuable, thought-provoking ideas that are helpful in understanding what CBE is, how to communicate about it, and how to plan for it.
The ‘Show Me’ Grading System of the Future
Changing the way we grade, report and evaluate student learning can oftentimes feel like an uphill battle. But our students deserve better. This post contains some useful steps and food for thought to plan for progress in that direction.
Learner-Driven Communities
A look at learner-driven communities, a new category of personalized learning that teaches and creates environments that encourage, “extreme agency”.
Better Together: Why Networks Are the Future of Learning
The new thing in education is working in networks. And there’s good reason because the demands of the work have outstripped the toolset. Creating powerful learning is hard work and there’s no reason for teacher teams to work alone. Networks make powerful learning possible at scale.
18 Examples of State Policies that Support Competency-Based Programs
In this post, we look at examples of state policies grouped by their features of flexibility from time-based systems, competency-based diplomas, acceptance of competency-based diplomas and credits by higher education, flexible learning, state assessments, and innovation pilots.
A 21st Century Model of Special Education
By: Megan Gross and Ace Parsi. Special needs students will be entering the same world as their peers, a world where rote tasks are increasingly automated or outsourced. And yet we do little to prepare them for their future.
How Maker Education Supports English Languages Learners in STEM
By: Caroline Linne. What are the best ways to teach STEM subjects to students who haven't mastered the English language yet? Explore how a makerspace can support STEM education for English language learners.